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...celebration, for they broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing whistles. The remaining members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them out." Neither did Herr Bock diminish the noise one iota by waving his private bell and squeaking "Order! Order!" Finally, everyone had to stop to draw breath. Officials began to call the roll. Everyone waited for the L's and the T's with breath bated and hearts palpitating. The Communists yowled whenever a Communist...
...visit. They gave him a good reception at the sta-tion-and a drink of water. When an airship has flown a great distance, she has naturally consumed an enormous weight of fuel. The ship being lighter, it was formerly necessary to release the valuable helium gas and diminish the lift of the gas bags to re-store equilibrium. Besi'des being a source of expense, this meant that there was less reserve of gas left for emergencies. A new process is now available on board the Shenandoah whereby the weight of the fuel burnt by the engines...
Fewer Quacks. The recent scandal in medical licensure will, no doubt, diminish still further the number of physicians coming from low grade medical schools. Out of 35,497 physicians during the last six years, only 1,903 came from medical schools rated as low grade by the American Medical Association...
...That the law creating the Rail-road Labor Board be modified, as the functioning of that body tends to increase and complicate rather than diminish railway labor difficulties...
...Story. There are books that find their audience instantaneously- and oblivion soon. There are books whose first popularity the years do little to diminish. And there are books whose progress toward a place in the ranks of acknowledged greatness is as gradual and irresistible as the advance of a glacier. Travels in Arabia Deserta* (first published in 1888) belongs in this last rare class. One recognizes that, if any tale of a journey in modern times may stand beside the tale of the wanderings of Ulysses, it is this...