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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first thing I say to myself is, 'Isn't there someone who can do that as well as I can?' and you would be surprised how often I find someone else can do it better. That saves me for the problems which only I can decide." F. L. LANE...
...F. JAMIESON Calgary, Alberta, Canada So close is Canada to the U. S., so similar its interests, so interwoven its activities, that many a Canada story is treated of by TIME Foreign News. Example: "'World's Greatest Railroad," TIME, April 15, Business. Let more Canadians say how they would like their Canada news - under "Canada" in Foreign News or mixed through TIME...
Permit me to lay a cool hand on the fevered brow of your correspondent from Scranton, Dennis F. Crolly, who was so exercised last week (TIME, April 15) about the matter of legs, Nancy Hanks and the disintegrating influence of the Rue de la Paix as set forth in French Line advertising. Nancy was a fine woman; in that I am in entire agreement with him. If she were alive today, probably the French Line would be proud to offer her a cabin de luxe on the lie de France and I would personally shepherd her from shop to shop...
...aspirant to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat; the heat would...
Modell last year won the Junior New England Foils Championship in the A. F. L. A. competition, and during the past year he has been one of the mainstays of the Harvard team...