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...harm done by inadequate lighting. The barrage of the utility companies' advertisements during recent years must have opened all eyes to these dangers. Although the library committee seems to ignore it, the age of dimly-lighted libraries went out with the arrival of such innovations as daylight bulbs and indirect illumination. Nor are these inventions the extravagant, terrifying arrangements that Harvard must believe them to be. That they are desirable impresses any student who has to spend a long period of time stooped across one of the tables in the reading-room trying to bring his book under the elusive...
...subway system in his capital city, which, if the pictures are to be believed, is a cross between the Widener reading-room and the Radio City Music Hall. Although poor capitalistic New Yorkers and Bostonians ride to work in dismal, cement-crusted burrows, the sybaritic Muscovites will travel through indirect-lighted galleries, looking at artistic mosaics and marble-faced walls. If New Yorkers threatened last year to do their stock-trading in Newark because of unreasonable taxes, how much better right have they now to do their commuting in Moscow, where the fare for travel through these palatial arcades...
...only effect the sea waves may conceivably have is an indirect one: inevitably they affect the course and speed of the firing ship, and thus, indirectly, the initial velocity of the projectile...
...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...
...those present had slightly too much regard for Mr. Hearst's altruism, and were rudely shocked when he was accused of ulterior motives. But the overwhelming majority came and went in firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem...