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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1. (VII) Botany 2 Sever 5 Chemistry 4 New Lect. Hall Chemistry 18 Emerson A Economics 3 New Lect. Hall Economics 11 Harvard 6 English 8 Sever 17 English 10b Sever 6 English 50a Emerson D, F French 4, 2 o'clock sect. Harvard 5 French 11 hf. Harvard 5 French 16 Harvard 6 Geography 2 Sever 18 German F Sever 6 German 18 Harvard 6 Government 6 Emerson F Indic Philology 1a Sever 6 Italian 4 Emerson A Latin A, I Sever 18 Latin 15 Sever 17 Mathematics A III Sever 6 Psychology 11 Emerson A Slavic...
...Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Painter Salisbury has done the portraits of England's King, Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury. Many a U. S. Tycoon, including George F. Baker, the late great Elbert Gary, and Andrew Mellon, has sat for the Salisbury brush. The Coolidge portraits should be finished in another fortnight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have agreed to sit daily...
...will pay!" That was supposed to justify the War expenditures of France, however staggering. Also, at the close of the War, Finance Minister Klotz signed a paper which enabled him to buy from the U. S.-on credit-the $400,000,000 surplus war supplies of the A. E. F. in France. Promptly M. Klotz sold this credit-bought goods for cash. They brought so little that ever since France has been repenting his bargain. Today one of the chief perplexities of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare is how he is ever going to pay the $400,000,000 bill signed...
Prior to perpetrating such pap for gullibles, young Erskine Gwynne, son of the late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor...
...Cold Moon. One late afternoon when the Moon was early up, astronomers at Mt. Wilson observatory focused their 100-inch telescope on her and with a thermocouple found her heat, absorbed from the sun, to be 159° F. ( Water boils on earth at 212° F.) While they were measuring, Earth passed between Sun and Moon, causing an eclipse. Moon's temperature dropped to 196° below Zero. Less than an hour later the lunar temperature was 155° F. Edison Pettit and Seth Barnes Nicholson, who reported this, estimated that when no sunlight reaches the Moon...