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...Haven, November 7, 1925--In the balloting, at Yale, under the auspices of the Yale Daily News; on the subject of compulsory chapel, the opponents of the traditional service as a compulsory act won a clean-cut victory. The returns, which included almost 85 percent of the student body, showed that 1472 had voted against the continuance of compulsory chapel, while only 204 voted...
...weigh small objects, observing whether variations in their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which are wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives by ambitious and self-respecting men. They boys, if properly brought up, should become leaders of the Filipino people...
...COURT), similar laws (defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution law in Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton was intoxicated with "boom" elixir like a small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming...
...clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...