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Still, there is some comfort left. The same dispatch that announces this epoch-making event also states that no detailed report of the test was made. No doubt the examiner feared the outburst of parricides and infanticides that must surely follow if he should set son against father and father against son with the report of "better' or "worse"; and decided instead to cool the smoldering fires with a soothing "satisfactory...
...definite could be learned, however, as to the actual structure of the sidereal universe in which the earth plays its ultra-microscopic part, the actual distance to many of the brighter stars had to be measured. When Copernicus promulgated the heliocentric theory in 1543 through the publication of his epoch-making book. 'De Revolution-ibus Orbium Coelestium", it was seen that the motion of the earth in its orbit about the sun should produce an apparent displacement or change in direction of a star as the observer was carried in the space of six months from one side...
...post-war French mentality. When the 1920 Olympiad was awarded to Antwerp, taking the place of Berlin, and the games were such a pronounced success. France bent every effort to secure the next award. She felt that she deserved it, as she deserved many other things in that epoch of the war's after-glow. The international committee gave the games to Paris and everything was serene. France sat back contents and did nothing more about...
...must be continued; unless the treaties are carried out to the letter the scoffers will be justified in their criticism. Future good faith, and future agreements, not merely for the limitation of armaments but for the elimination of armaments, will make the Washington Conference the beginning of a new epoch...
...university. In view of the fact that the exercise of Harvard's degree-granting function antedates the State of Massachusetts by one hundred and thirty-two years, and was practically coeval with the Massachusetts Bay colony itself, the Attorney General's opinion can hardly be classed with the epoch-making instruments of American history. As a matter of sober historical fact, the power of Harvard to grant degrees may be regarded as resting on foundations quite as firm as those of the Constitution of the United States. If Harvard could not grant degrees, then there is no such thing...