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Passengers in New York's humid, jam-packed subways wondered dully at the headlines in their neighbors' newspapers one evening last week: I. R. T. IN RECEIVERSHIP. What would that mean? wondered the subway sardines. Fewer seats than ever? More jerking and lurching, more pushing and bawling by red-faced guards at the stations? Fact was it might mean, eventually, an improvement in the lot of the subway sardine...
...Crime." The imprisonment question remained unanswered because suddenly Senator McDougald decided to appear and testify. The interest the question had aroused packed the humid committee-room. Handsome, natty and spry, Senator McDougald took the chair, barked answers at his inquisitors (among whom was M. P. Gardiner), sometimes confusing them...
Earlier in the week in Washington there was much judicial juggling of Fall's one-year sentence. Army physicians upon examination had found him suffering from chronic tuberculosis, chronic pleurisy, arthritis and arteriosclerosis. To keep him in a dry climate and out of humid Washington's jail, a considerate judge changed his sentence to a year & a day. This technicality gave Attorney General Mitchell authority to designate the New Mexico penitentiary for his imprisonment. The change also brought Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against...
...audiences at open-air concerts but it is the ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...
...remainder of the trip to the Pacific, the travellers paaged through two more climatic zones, the humid subtropics and the Pacific lowland tropics, where they studied the remaining variations, caused by these climate differences. Beautiful as they thought the country, the two ornithologists continually, suffered from the changes of altitude...