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...cast it off. The new Directorate which the Council meets to elect must be strong and disciplined." Italy's wheat crop has failed. This was evidenced when Roman bakeries started to bake the inferior war bread - now called pane popolare and sold for 1 lira 20 centesimi per kilogram (6 cents). The price of white bread advanced to 2 lire per kilogram (10 cents), owing to the advancing price of wheat. A party of, men, said to be Fascisti, broke into St. Peter's Catholic Club at Borsano, near Milan, threw all the furniture into the street, made...
...business of the Bureau is to compare and test the standards of weight, length, power, heat, resistance, etc. used in American laboratories, commerce, and universities, with the official standards of the government. Here are kept under glass at even temperature the platinum-iridium bar one meter long and the kilogram of the same material on which our weights and measures are based...
...States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...
...visiting committee of the division of Geology has provided the department with the funds necessary to erect a seismograph in the University Museum. A Bash-Omori seismograph with two 100 kilogram conical pendulums, one swung in the meridian and the other east and west, will shortly be placed on a suitable foundation in the basement of the Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year...
...varsity tug-of-war team have pulled the following amounts: F. G. Balch, anchor, 1760 lbs. (with belt on); P. Chase, 946 lbs.; C. H. Baldwin, 836 lbs.; E. A. Pease, 946 lbs., making a total of 4,448 lbs. for the team. In computing the amounts, a kilogram was taken as 2 1-5 pounds. Amory, '90, and Munro, '89, will go to New York as substitutes...