Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter will form an issue in the 1929 legislature of Michigan; perhaps a Senatorial Investigation Committee will hold hearings concerning it. Such a hearing should be entertaining, with the enemies of skunks exhibiting disinterred clothes and sometimes embarrassingly placed bee stings against the evidence of the friends of skunks who will show the little allies of man eating obnoxious insects and in the form of furs. The hearing would be decidedly unfair were not a skunk invited to show what he could do in an exhibition of natural talent. Laws are too much based on nebulous theory; here...
Mediocrity is the order of the evening at the Majestic Theatre, for the present at least. "Cafe de Danse" is mildly amusing in spots, but in its present form presents no startling features...
...plot is unconvincing enough to form the basis of any musical comedy, and, as a matter of fact, may well have served as such at one time or another, but then this isn't a musical comedy. There is some music, to be sure, furnished, according to the program, by Ben Bernie's Seville Orchestra (not to be confused with his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra). It isn't very tuneful but affords an opportunity for some good xylophoning...
...submarine shaped object is a tank for the study of the physiological effects of high and low pressures. It is of circular form, 35 feet long and eight in diameter, and is of half-inch welded steel. Pressures as high as 60 pounds per square inch and as low as those found at an altitude of 25,000 feet can be obtained, and gases of any desired mixture, humidity, and temperature can be fed in any desired amount to the pressure chambers, of which there are two, entered by means of a lock arrangement in the center of the tank...
...colleges and universities which form the approved list of the Association of American Universities, Randolph-Macon College (for men) at Ashland, Va., is the smallest (220 students...