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...even little Peterkin or little Wilhelmine might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied best to prove that England really won. Neutral U. S. readers, however, will still feel that much can be repeated on both sides...
...building to sink six inches in eighteen years causes some concern at M.I.T. If the science of soil mechanics had been developed earlier, the sinking would have been uniform at least. In the Harvard Engineering School laboratory of soil mechanics, Arthur Casagrande, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, a former member of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, has carried out experiments with the most modern equipment that go far towards explaining the reasons for the settlement...
...original trial, three Harvard students and eighteen other persons were accused of inciting to riot and were given sentences varying from six months to a year...
Chester Byers has been the No. 1 U. S. trick roper for eighteen years. Since he beat Bee Ho Gray, outstanding pre-War roper, in 1916, he has been defeated only twice. Born in Illinois, he learned his profession in Oklahoma, perfected it by copying Will Rogers whom he admired at the St. Louis Fair in 1904. In return for advice about trick roping, he taught Will Rogers how to rope calves, became his close friend. Now 41, Roper Byers makes $15,000 in a good year, hopes to organize a school in Manhattan to teach policemen how to rope...
...Eighteen years ago, Mary Pickford made her admirers weep with Poor Little Rich Girl. The Richest Girl in the World, an adult variation of the same theme, keeps its tongue in its cheek. It is a charming, energetic comedy, which should please the majority of cinemaddicts and offend no one except the Huttons and Prince Mdivani...