Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notified the League's secretary-general that controlling the world's supply of opium, from raw material to derived product, was one of the things the U. S. thinks the League does not do very successfully. The U. S. declined to join in the appointment of a central board under the Geneva opium convention of 1925, considering it no improvement upon the Hague convention...
...Lecture Hall at quarter past three yesterday afternoon five proctors started to distribute the ancient author examinations in Sophocles. At seventeen minutes past the proctor in the middle aisle ran out of papers. He thought for a moment, then he went to the central desk. He obtained the remaining papers and distributed them. There was still a fringe of snapping fingers in the outer seats and there were no more examination papers. Precisely enough had been printed to supply those who had registered for the examination. The arrival of several unregistered examinees had left the proctors in the situation...
...Lothrop was director of the Peabody Museum expedition to Central America in 1916-17, and an associate in Anthropology at Harvard during the year 1919-20. From 1916 to 1923 he was research assistant in Anthropology at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.; in 1922 a member of the Carnegie Institution expedition to Yucatan and Guatemala; in 1923 in charge of excavations at Ketchipann, N. M., in the joint interests of the Museum of the American Indian and Cambridge University; in 1925 in charge of the joint excavations in the delta of the Parana River, South America. Since...
...device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts now is a small radio receiving set. When a special generation at the central station sends waves of 720 cycles a second along the light wires, the receiver shoves a switch which connects the individual lamp with the lighting circuit; when the frequency is 480 cycles, the receiver pulls a switch that disconnects the lamp. All lamps in a particular circuit...
Dining Cars. To operate 156 dining cars last year cost the New York Central $7,032,798. Income was $5,760,338, loss...