Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which Germany is permitted to build under the Treaty of Versailles. Fierce opposition to the measure came from the largest German party, Socialist, which is unalterably Pacifist. Therefore the chancellor of Germany, Socialist Müller, dared not vote for Cruiser...
Defeated, as the Reichstag settled to business last week, was a freak bill presented by Deputies of the extreme and reckless Right. Its essence: "Germany shall discontinue Dawes Plan payments and use the money to build an Army and Navy adequate for the Fatherland's defense...
...Undergraduate sentiment is too vague and ill-defined, at Harvard at least, to make a suitable foundation on which to build an editorial policy. Every paper represents the opinions and prejudices of those who run and own it." November...
...plan: to build in Harvard an "inner college," housing about 300 students from all four classes; to give these students the mutual social contacts of the small college while still offering them the intellectual advantage of the large university...
Obliquely interesting to the light physicists at Washington was the California Institute of Technology's decision to build a 200-inch telescope near Mount Wilson. The present Mount Wilson apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack...