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...strengthened by installing four 16-inch guns on the Atlantic and five on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. (These guns are available to the Army from the Navy as result of the so-called Disarmament Treaty, and need only to be mouted at the Canal.) In the test attack ships bombarded the Canal out of range of its present guns...
From many parts of Europe come reports of the unearthing of original paintings of old masters. The public is skeptical. Wherefore, France and the world of science contributed last week a new practical test for the discovery of fakes. Ultraviolet rays and colored lights thrown upon the paintings under suspicion show, when photographed, the method of brush-work and the exact kind of pigment used by the artist...
...evident by the signs that the world, in its intense modern fashion, having, due largely to Mr. Bok, just gone through a "Think-about-Peace" week is entering on a "Consider-the-next-War" week. Coincidently one reads that the army is about to test a new plane that carries enough bombs to demoralize a whole city; that the British air ministry is leaving nothing to chance in the perfection of the air defenses of London; and that the American navy is conducting manoeuvres on a grand scale.--All of which may be magnificent, but it is not peace...
...until it is settled. Now Dr. Isaac Fried, CzechoSlovakian savant, after extensive experiments in Prague and under Professor Devraignes in Paris, asserts that he can diagnose the sex of a child four months before birth. His method is based on a blood reaction similar to the Wassermann test, but no further details are vouchsafed. The French Academy of Medicine appointed a committee of inquiry. Dr. Fried is probably a reputable scientist, but cranks innumerable have flourished on this same subject. Vide Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, "Psy.D., Ph.D.," of Rochester, N. Y., sponsor of the "American Super-Race Foundation," who came...
...TRIUMPH?A Crucible for the Test of the Keenest and Purest Product of Human Effort in Every Possible Field of Thought...