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...Friendship, by Owen Wister, (TIME, June 23) book reviewers were puzzled, historians baffled, as to what was the matter with the book. The publishers spoke vaguely of "certain corrections'' it was "necessary" to make but declined to explain what grave thing was forcing them to expend perhaps $100,000 on repaging, replating, reprinting, rebinding. Author Wister was in Europe. His family referred to "anonymous protests...
...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...
...does the faculty relish this task. They are forced to expend considerable time and energy simply to give the dean's office a rather uncertain scale of the quality: of their students...
With the return of Giddens to the lineup next week, the necessary spark and scoring punch may be added. Harvard's Canadian ace has been high scorer of the Crimson squad for two seasons and will expend all efforts in making up for lost time. His return to action will of course necessitate some lineup shifts, but just what should be done is open to question. Observations at practice sesions and games have revealed that the shift should come on the second line, while the first combination of Putnam, Garrison, and Stubbs would remain intact. A relief line of equal...
Sprinting & Horsepower. Sprinters expend 13 horsepower of chemical energy and 3 horsepower of mechanical energy. Rochester's Wallace Osgood Fenn found. They lose some energy because when their feet touch the ground they push themselves back slightly. Wind resistance absorbs some of their energy...