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...Tipple's resignation was accepted last week by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church. Dr. Frank M. North, in presenting the resignation, reported: "There are political conditions which need not disturb us greatly. But there are ecclesiastical conditions which may definitely disturb us. The position and plans of the Collegio Internazionale (Methodist International College) are centers of agitation. But both in Italy and the United States there are steady supporters of the enterprise, and the purpose to develop the school sanely and surely upon its present site is unaltered...
...Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commandant of the 2nd Coast Artillery District and Pershing's Chief of Staff, announces an unpleasant form of retaliation. This will take the form of an anti-aircraft gun firing a 250-pound shell of high explosive. No direct hit will be required. Detonation will disturb an immense volume of air, wrecking any airplane in the vicinity...
Senator Johnson ("Magnavox"), newly elected from Minnesota, has been assigned to suite 125 in the Senate office building. It is said that in consideration of the Senator's extraordinary vocal power, " buffer rooms" (extra, empty rooms) have been provided adjoining his personal office, so that his voice will not disturb his colleagues...
...muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb intellectual processes, but not in a marked degree." There was great variability between persons and from day to day. In a few of the tests (e. g., speed in addition), tobacco increased the average efficiency of the group. In most of them, it decreased the average efficiency slightly...
...James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary will be familiar to antiquarians only, while the fame of Keats and Shelley, Dostoevsky and Goethe will persist to annoy and fascinate hundreds of generations of school children. Even such a recent cataclysm as the World War did not seriously disturb the order of rank in the international hall of fame. For all of their "saving of the world" and their "redemption of democracy." Foch, Clemenceau, Wilson and the organizing and technical genius that managed the enterprise were unable to displace Anatole France, Maxim Gorky, Bernard Shaw. That the crux...