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Safety First campaigns and horrible examples have informed all except those who will not learn that one of the products of imperfect combustion in the cylinders of a gasoline engine is carbon monoxide, a gas toxic and often fatal-in sufficient concentration-to human beings. Engines running in closed garages have been the cause of a rapidly increasing death list in recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high...
...Czech by Holzinger with the assistance of Miss Arnsteinova, a Czechoslovakian girl sent by her government to Smith College. Never before has this play been translated directly into English. The only other English translation in existence is taken from a German translation of the original, and naturally it is imperfect...
...seaman before becoming Germany's most noted dirigible pilot. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years' piloting. In spite of his imperfect English, he was able a fortnight ago, tugging the while at his well-trimmed beard, to keep the attention of some 200 men- aeronautical students at New York University, Army and Navy men, and aviation enthusiasts generally-riveted on a lecture of more than two hours' duration...
...Mellon's reply concluded with a reference to "the futility of unjustified criticism based upon an imperfect understanding of the facts...
...their lives by the change of the Orthodox Greek Churches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the fearful wail that must have gone forth can easily be imagined by the Daylight Saving "grousers" At the same time it may have reminded people of what an arbitrary and imperfect thing the Gregorian calendar is. Although Caesa, and Pope Gregery put it inot fair harmony with the solar year, it is full of odd quirks. For instance it begirs on January first instead of with the vernal equinox because the Renaissance advanced the entrance of the consuls into office, their official...