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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanations being now in order. Professor Wegener pointed to the well-known sliding propensities of continents to account for their present state of mutual aloofness, thus causing great offence to Professor Jeffrey, who had based his story of the origin of the earth on opposite premises. Scientific discoveries, however, thrive on opposition, and Professor Wegener is not alarmed by the objections of a few conservatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIDING CONTINENTS | 1/15/1926 | See Source »

Queen Marie of Roumania, famed matchmaker for Balkan dynasties, long ago devised a sentimental formula to account gracefully for her inability to manage her eldest son, the Crown Prince Carpi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROUMANIA: Carol Out | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Tongues wagged their fastest. It began to be widely believed that General Pershing had found it utterly impossible to cajole or coerce Chile and Peru into agreeing on the terms of a fair Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Naturally Chile was supposed to concede the final break on account of the "appeal" to President Coolidge, and because of the recent Pershing-baiting tactics of Senor Edwards, the Chilean representative on the Commission (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Teeth | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Lieutenant-Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., will give an account of the work accomplished by the Navy-MacMilan Expedition of last summer in the Living Room of the Harvard Union this Thursday evening, at 7.15 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIR EXPLORER TO TELL EXPERIENCES AT UNION | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...handled by a committee of one, two, or three. Nor is it essential that such a committee should be appointed by the Student Council, or named by them upon the advice of the employment office. The Register, on a paying basis, would offer sufficient rewards of its own to account for those who gave their time to compiling it. The general mechanics of the matter would take care of itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROMPTNESS APPLIED | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

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