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...there is in any country, but although he works hard he has very little to show for it in comparison with laborers in America. The miner's job over there is an especially arduous one. I have seen miners work stretched out in a vein only eighteen inches thick for a great length of time, without even being able to sit up. For this he receives only a very modest wage. The conditions are better in the steel mills in the north of France, which are aiding in the reconstruction of the devastated territory...
...Politics" in a new American thesaurus might be bracketed with "unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...
...process of construction inside the oval of the new track on Soldiers Field. The ground has already been opened and pipes laid for drainage, but cinders are scarce at present in Cambridge and the plans cannot be carried out till more of these are secured to make a thick enough foundation for the top layer of clay. If things go as expected the courts will be completed in time for use this coming spring...
Improvements came thick and fast from then on. Mr. Edwin Armstrong, an amateur, discovered the regenerative circuit, by means of which a tremendous amplifying power was automatically obtained, and Mr. Paul F. Godley found a way to make it practical for amateur short waves. This great improvement in sensitiveness lifted the distance into the several hundreds of miles, and opened up great areas over which the excited amateur could communicate. This development, it must be understood was country wide, in its scope, and what was going on in and around Boston was also going on in and around New York...
...compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of heaven differ. Our academic heaven is not of the smug, cloistered variety that escapes the noises of the workaday world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses us of "respectability". Indeed the whole notion that colleges and their professors concern themselves soley with members of their "brotherhood" is unjustified. Strange that journals professing to lead advanced thought should not comprehend the fact that present day colleges...