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National Women's Doubles. The Englishwomen finally poked their heads above the tidal wave of defeat which has drenched their invading aspirations. Miss Kathleen McKane and Mrs. B. C. Covell won the national doubles championship by steadiness and clockwork team play from Miss Eleanor Goss and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. Score: 2?6, 6?2, 6?1. Of singular interest during the match was the pronounced partisanship of the American audience for the English players...
...because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing of the French always impressed us as likely to be much more disconcerting to the people...
Mind is called infinite. Yet expressed in terms of matter it is minute, scarce larger than would fit in an empty nutshell. The omnipotence of man becomes petty besides his ignorance; his greatest achievements, his boasted comprehension of the universe, are contained within a clockwork mass of matter. And the training of this mind up to a place where it even in some bare measure may approach the divine, takes the greater part of a man's life...
...seismograph with two 100 kilogram conical pendulums, one swung in the meridian and the other east and west, will shortly be placed on a suitable foundation in the basement of the Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station, gave complete records of the San Francisco, Valparaiso, and the great Indian earthquakes. The Harvard station...
...predicted for Thursday or Friday night. This is the last time they may be expected for thirty-three years, and ample preparations have been made at the Observatory to cover the entire field of the shower. Four cameras have been mounted on a platform moved by clockwork so that they will cover the same sixty degrees of the sky, throughout the entire shower. Six other instruments will be in use for determining the spectrum, magnitude and distance of the Leonids, and the radiant from which they come...