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...strength of the U. S. Navy was upped 10,000 tons when, in a bleak windswept ceremony at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the eleven million dollar cruiser Pensacola was officially commissioned. In ten minutes three flags were broken out, the watch set, the ship's clock started and the galley fires lighted. The Navy Department with one eye cocked on the London conference took this occasion to remark: "Events of recent years have proved only too clearly that a keel laid is not necessarily...
...Physics textbook, to be used in future science courses at Harvard, will be issued by its author and compiler. Professor Frederick Alfred Saunders of the University Physics department, by next May. The book is now in galley proof form and is undergoing checking and revision; the title has not been decided upon...
...right atmosphere and Lionel Barrymore seems to enjoy his role as the submarine builder and conqueror of the fish-men of the ocean bottom. But The Mysterious Island is too long and too complicated and its fantasy is too often choked by the plot. Good shots: the sunken Roman galley, manned with the skeletons of slaves shackled in their seats; the crew of the submarine dressing to go out by pushing a lever which drops diving suits over them; the fish-men, whose bodies are shaped like diving suits, getting ready...
...with which the earth's magnetic forces were measured was carried forward as far away from the stern as conditions permitted. It may interest your readers to know that the anchors carried were made of bronze and the anchor cable was very heavy Manila hawser. All stoves in galley as well as cooking utensils were of nonmagnetic material...
...another instance a college president is alleged to have had a secret arrangement whereby galley proof of the college literary publication was submitted to him by the printer, without the knowledge of the staff...