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...less battleships, two less battle cruisers, 14 less light cruisers took part in the recent naval exercises; the actual number of these types of ships being eight battleships, two battle cruisers, twelve light cruisers. It was stated, however, that the ships are more battleworthy than those of 1914, having heavier guns and greater speed...
...scarcely practical to do so. Landing a monster of 80 tons might offer considerable difficulties, and not a flying field in the U. S. is really equipped to receive such a ship as its guest. Moreover, dirigibles improve with size, but airplanes do not. The larger they are, the heavier their structure in proportion to their gross weight. A limit in airplane size exists, at which a plane can fly but carry nothing except its crew and fuel...
...interesting to notice that although the football squad draws many of the heavier oarsmen in the fall, that squad rarely includes many light candidates, so that all men who would be eligible for this branch of rowing can come out in the fall, making it more possible to form a fairly definite University 150-pound eight early in the year and give this combination the benefit of working together for a longer time than usual...
...York Times grandly asserting that it is heavier than ever before...
...attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk and a caterpillar drive adjustable at any time, for getting automobile trucks out of ditches. The Universal Oil Products Co. demonstrated its process for " cracking" gasoline from heavier oils, such as kerosene...