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...Gordian Knot was cut when M. Briand summoned to his Paris office Norman Armour, Charge d'Affaires of the local U. S. embassy, and asked him to transmit a note from the League, not to Secretary of State Kellogg, but to Chairman Kellogg of the Pan-American Conference...
...necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances in the path of carrying out his athletics-for-all policy to its logical conclusion...
West Virginia expects much from its land grant university. The state covers the twisted knot of Appalachian mountain ridges. Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...
FANTASIA AND FUGUE ON B. A. C. H. rendered on the organ of Westminster Cathedral for the English Gramaphone Co. by Guy Weitz is interesting. One of those tremendous things that ties you into a knot...
...Hilda Spong) who refers to him as "you horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into a cupid's-bow knot; in some other respects she is her equal. The High Road is flawlessly cast and flawlessly acted...