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...yards greater than ours. The Japanese battleship Mutzu is reported to have a range of 35,000 yards-5,000 yards greater than that of any American or British ship. In addition, the Japanese are spending $25,000,000 in modernizing their navy. These facts are considered sufficient to warrant the Navy Department project. Whether the proposed change can be made under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty is a question which Secretary Hughes is said to be discussing with the British Foreign Office. Although American Naval officers declare that we are fully within our rights under the Treaty in increasing...
Neither Siki nor McTigue showed sufficient skill or savagery to warrant the championship. The early rounds of the fight bored the crowd although their favorite, McTigue, was steadily outpointing the black champion. Siki showed commendable courage but a technical ignorance of his profession. The 17th round roused the Celtic spectators to savage pleas for Siki's blood, and lack of a knockout interfered seriously with their holiday...
...attack; the inerant coach whose ethical standards are not always high; the training table, the only aristocratic element in otherwise democratic conditions; and, finally, too long a period of eligibility. The first of these admits of no dispute, and the second is too much a matter of circumstances to warrant any definite conclusions. But the third is perhaps the most interesting suggestion that has been added to the accumulating ideas on a troublesome subject...
...actual cost of producing anthracite coal does not warrant the excessively high prices which the public are paying, according to a report made by a committee representing the United Mine Workers of America, and brought to the attention of the United States Coal Commission...
...CRITICS.-The scientific probability of Mary Zattiany's rejuvenation has caused considerable discussion. Such cures have been affirmed. Whether they are sufficiently established to warrant Mrs. Atherton's use of the idea is another matter. In general, the book has been well received. Says Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of The Literary Review: "It is as a social description, done with a power that beats into shape a turgid style, that one must praise Black Oxen...