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...Sept. 1, the anthracite coal fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania become the scene of a brief coal-strike and last week no one expected more than the briefest of curtain-raisers?statistics will show...
...There is one remedy. Drastic restriction of publicity before the trial must be imposed by law. England by custom and by law imposes such restrictions. English papers print only the briefest and coolest statement of the facts before the trial. Three papers there were fined heavily not long ago for news reports that to us were mild. Publicity before the trial should be restricted, it may be, to official statements by police or state's attorney. If that be unfair to the defense, some other rule should be worked out. It is a problem suitable for the American...
...account of his son's funeral, the President was able to hold very few conferences, and those only of the briefest and most pressing kind...
...will be a century's work to "estimate" Lenin. To The Evening Mail, Manhattan, is given credit for the briefest, and possibly the most clearly characteristic summary of American editorial opinion...
...measurement of the electrical changes induced in the retina of the eye by the action of light. The minute changes in electrical potential thus induced are amplified by special electrical apparatus to such a degree as to permit the measurement and recording of a reaction produced by the briefest exposure to a source of light equivalent to only one-millionth of a candle power...