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...framework, screwed together and temporarily clamped. The appearance of a slight lean is due to the fact that it has not yet been secured in the ceiling of the rectangular room housing the old bell, now ringing from Harvard Hall. Bolts, cables, and cement will be used to fasten the pole within the framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although wires which will ground any electrical disturbances will run down through the tower separated from the pole by insulators. The flaring color of the spike is caused by red lead paint which forms...
...tagged with his familiar nickname because of his persistent advocacy of alfalfa as the proper hay to plant in the short grass country of Oklahoma. Even today he cultivates the popular use of "Alfalfa Bill" rather than the less common "Cocklebur Bill" which his political enemies tried to fasten on him. As a farmer, Murray was successful and is supposed to have made several hundred thousand dollars from his Tishomingo land. Soon, however, he transferred his interest in Agriculture from practice to politics and has largely made his living in that way in recent years...
American newspapers always manage to fasten their attention on one particular story which has a mass appeal and then deluge the public with columns of news about it. They concentrate on one thing at a time, disregarding the meanwhile all other mass interest stories that may come along. For over five weeks the Culbertson-Lenz bridge rodeo held its position as the most consistent daily front page story. Then it stopped. But before city editors had the time to cease yawning, they had thrust at them what promises to be one of the most stupendous news story of the year...
...Further, direct negotiation between China and Japan will not only fasten a prejudicial settlement upon China, as had happened before; but also, since Japan has violated the peace treaties of the world, an equitable adjustment of her wrongs cannot be effected unless by arbitration. China's plea for an international commission of inquiry to examine the facts has not yet been accepted by the League Council...
...first of the two recent accidents in which a Harvard freshman was killed, involved the infraction of two primary fundamentals in which student pilots are drilled, which was the cause of his undoing. In the first place he had neglected to fasten his safety belt which would have no doubt saved his life since he insisted in landing downwind. For more than a half hour, according to his log record, the pilot has attempted to land his ship after he noticed his engine was not functioning properly. He tried to land in three different fields, and failing each time, attempted...