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...ivory gates of the Capitol. The Huey Longs, the Upton Sinclairs, the Father Coughlins, the Dr. Townsends- their successors, their deputies, their proselytes, or their social kin-will be the strong men of politics. Only Recovery can ward them off, can save Franklin Roosevelt from having his left flank turned. Therefore a helping hand to Business and Recovery, more leisurely advancement for Reform. Thus, last week, the pundits...
...Hindenburg's dislike and distrust of him by suggested plans of campaign against France, by promising to quash the threatened land-scandals investigation. Author "X," who is after all a professional soldier, notes with enthusiasm various schemes for launching the next war- one of them a plan to flank the new French frontier fortresses by striking through Dutch South Limburg; another, a bacteriological offensive, to be started before a declaration of war. Many a U. S. reader will be more disagreeably impressed by these frank speculations than by Author "X's" revelations of political chicanery...
...evening when Yard-cops Mortimer Mahoney, Christopher Morris, and Albert Roach sighted the Mephitis mephitida, ambling past University Hall. But it was not until the dawn brought Apted and the day force of John Connolly and James Reddin that the pursuit began in earnest. The strategy of an enveloping flank movement brought the skunk to bay at 4.30 o'clock at Johnston Gate, and a few minutes later he was making his final stand in the sunken window of Massachusetts Hall...
...California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three...
...Harvard Yard and its inmates, whose safety and quiet are guaranteed by the daily ritual of the closing of the gates at sundown. Every evening at six o'clock sharp the clang of the iron protals on Massachusetts Avenue cuts off Virtually all approach to the buildings from that flank except from the vicinity of Boylston Hall...