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...winter advances, the temptation becomes constantly stronger to predict the reaching of an ascertainable turning point in business expansion. Already signs, such as heavy pig iron and steel production, which usually accompany or only slightly precede the crest of business prosperity, are seen. There is a large school 'which adheres to the belief, consciously or not, that all "business cycles" are alike in duration as well as in general theory and phenomena. Hence some "financial services" are already bearish on the stock market and are becoming pessimistic over the business outlook also. No prophet can, of course, be entirely...
This instrument is a device for taking very delicate measurements of the speed of light rays. Two rays are used for comparison. It works roughly on the principle that, if two sets of waves are produced and the crest of one is timed to come in the trough of another, the appearance of waves is destroyed. In the case of light, this means a dark place or shadow. When the light rays are received upon a given surface, visible dark lines are formed by the interference of the waves. Using this device in Southern California, last year, experiments were made...
Seven years ago* the Kerensky Provisional Government fell and the Bolsheviki seized power on the crest of a wave of slaughter...
...then inspected the library, after being introduced to the Fellows, the Overseers and the entire faculty of the College. When he had viewed the curiosities and rarities on display there, he was presented with a "History of Harvard College" emblazoned with the arms of the University and the crest and plume of the Prince...
Turning again to the undergraduate contributors, Mr. Abbott's sonnet deserves especial praise; but we deplore Mr. Marshall's idiosyncrasies in the modern manner, both of matter and arrangement, and we confess to a down-right bitterness in regard to Mr. Mangan's "Crest". Mr. LaFarge's second contribution must bring our review to a close. It is a story, excellently conceived and skillfully written, perhaps too skillfully, for at the end there is little but its conpetence and its manner to carry it on. There is a sort of frustrate maturity about the Advocate at times which prevents...