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...story, whose scene is Paris, is laid in the future. France, after a bitter civil war between Communists and Royalists, has become a kingdom, and the Bourbon lilies once again float over the Louvre. Walter Leroy, a young Manhattan doctor with liberal leanings, is on his way to Paris, ostensibly to pursue medical research, but actually to deliver money and a message from the U. S. Communist Party to their shattered comrades in France. On the boat with him travel M. de la Penthièvre, most potent minister of the new king; Mr. Penkethman, aged but acute sleuth connected...
...other sciences that have gone into the making of Queen Mary, astronomy was added last week. Astronomers and meteorologists agreed that one of the highest spring tides could be expected at about 2 p. m. to float the great Cunard White Star liner from John Brown's shipyard down the shallow Clyde...
...from its lofty theoretical plane. As an introductory course it should survey the many fields of sociology, and the material should be illustrated by contemporary applications and be related, as far as possible, to the individual. Then the prospective concentrator would find his taste whetted, without having philosophical vagaries float over his head so early in his career. Secondly, the theoretical aspects largely eliminated from Sociology A might be incorporated in a course on theory alone...
Five days later President Wilson, reversing his previous policy, agreed that belligerents might float public loans...
...plumber", Dr. Clark said, "we decided to build our pyramid out of pipe, each aide being about fifteen feet long. Barrels supported and buoyed it. On top of this triangle a high tower was built, with the instruments at the top. No one believed the thing would float...