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Further proof is submitted by Professor A. Sommerfeld, of Munich, who has been lecturing in Washington. His data show that the orbits of the electrons in hydrogen and helium atoms are in accord with the lines in the spectra of these gases as predicted by Einstein...
...play in the President's " 20 speeches" next summer. Lately the reports are that it will be made the major topic of discussion. It is declared in some quarters that Mr. Harding is determined to press his proposal "even if it splits the party." None of these reports accord well with the statement which the President made last week at Augusta, that our foreign relations have never been more satisfactory and that they are not as urgently in need of attention as many matters purely domestic...
...edifice does not quite accord with the architect's specifications. Only half the children can be taught in the primary schools which remain, and they only half-taught, without pencils, paper, shoes or soup. The others, running about in bands of hoodlums, pick up their education and their food from the streets. There are but five universities in Russia; one is headed by an ex-convict, while in all of them underfed and ragged professors attend cold lecture-rooms bundled in overcoats and mittens...
...last few years", Mr. Byrne concluded, "a feeling has developed among legal men that the law of the United States must be revised and codified to bring it into accord with the principles of the men who founded this country's constitution. I can conceive of no nobler or more appealing work than that, which must fall upon the younger generation of lawyers, of compiling the law which through the ten centuries of accumulation since its origin in England has developed into the greatest system of law the world has ever seen...
...Allies are in perfect accord with one another, but are keeping their weather-eye skinned for signs of Turkish double dealing. Possibly they have in mind the Treaty of London, May 30, 1913, in which Turkey- in-Europe was driven east of a line drawn from Enos (on the Aegean Sea) to Midia (on the Black Sea). When a commission of the Powers arrived to delimit the boundary, the Turks said: " Ah! We agreed to a line between Enos and Midia, but a curved line to take in Adrianople! " And they won their point...