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...presume to join in the now nation-wide pastime of deducing relations of cause and effect from sets of statistics, will focus their attention on English and Economics when scanning the figures released yesterday by the Committee on the Choice of Electives with regard to Freshman concentrators. The upward trend in Economics, still numerical leader among the fields, has been cut short by a drop of 16, while the English department sees an increase of 31 in the number of men working under...
...when Major French pulled the release lever, no bomb left the ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing...
Neither dour Depression nor fickle Fashion have been able to halt the steady upward trend of U. S. cigaret consumption. Proud are U. S. cigaret-makers of last year's 120,000,000,000 production record. And also satisfied with the record is a potent French industry, the industry which turns out little strips of cigaret paper three inches long and one and one-half inches wide. For all U. S. cigarets are wrapped in paper imported from France...
Left. By Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel (see p. 26), an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, to be divided into 200 equal shares (of $500,000 upward) as follows: Flower Hospital, Manhattan, 35 shares; Drew Theological Seminary, 35 shares; St. Christopher's Home for Children, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 35 shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass...
...Sparks Fly Upward...