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...culvert the Carabinieri saw a decomposed body, a file sticking in its breast. The corps was pulled out, and by the contour of a speccialy treated gold tooth, the shape of the head and the high cheekbones, the Carabinieri knew it was the body of Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, reported murdered some two months ago (TIME, June...
...Vigard, of the University of Christiania, Norway, claims he has discovered another and better reason. Just outside the earth's atmosphere, he says, is a wall of crystalline particles of nitrogen. This is what makes the sky blue. It also explains, he thinks, why radio waves follow the contour of the earth, instead of flying off from it at a tangent. This would seem to indicate that radio communication with other planets will always be impossible...
Aptly and concisely to describe her singing, one would have to go to Keats for the phrase "singing in full-throated ease." Mme. Gauthier possesses that limpidness and clear contour of tone necessary for the singer of the eighteenth century Italians, but she succeeded best, as far as her first group of songs was concerned, with the "Cradle Song" of William Byrd, a composer of Elizabethan England. The outstanding thing in her program, however, was her group of American songs. She sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece...
...course opened on June 16 and during the first week the work consisted of the study of instruments and preliminary compass and chain surveying. During the next three weeks plane and topographical surveying was studied and a complete contour map made of 15 acres of representative country. Railroad surveying was taken up the last four weeks of the camp, each student mapping out an imaginary railroad three miles long and computing the curves and grades. The best of the plans was selected and the railroad was staked out ready for construction...
...first successful contour map of a portion of the ocean bottom has been completed by the hydrographic office of the U. S. Navy Department, and covers an area of 34,000 square miles on the west coast of North America from San Francisco to a point in Mexico. It will aid the study of earthquakes on the west coast...