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...principals, one was a 194½-pound man, aged 32, of Irish descent?Jack Dempsey. Thick-lipped, splay-nosed, laconic, he was to demonstrate whether or not he could again transform himself into a smashing feline whirlwind in the boxing ring as he could from 1919 to 1926 when he was world's champion heavyweight...
Eggshell Debate. A major Anglo-U. S. point of contention last week, was whether, if the British proposal to limit cruiser guns to a six-inch bore were adopted, the British could transform their fast merchant fleet overnight into a cruiser fleet by mounting these little guns on the Mauretania, Majestic, Berengaria, Olympic...
...that "the Conference is not . . . composed of responsible delegates invested with full powers for the conclusion of conventions" but is rather "a general consultation, in the course of which various programs and doctrines may be freely exposed without the freedom of discussion being restricted by any immediate necessity to transform the conclusions of the conference into international engagements...
...life as an architect whose fine instincts are being tortured by his unhappy marriage, so that you will scarcely blame Sara for leaving child and housekeeping to abscond with him ?at that point they turn on Siercy, who was sadly dished in the first place, and they transform him into a bounder. Incapable of carrying further what they have called Romance, they revile and belittle and finally pity it. They send Siercy away in shabby disgrace and exalt dull William Henry into a nobly understanding husband who mutters modestly about his part in the Great War. It is anything...
...invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into electric impulses, then back to pictures. The transmitted photograph must be engraved. The Ford process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard...