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...there is also unmistakable evidence that Germany has been making large importations of war materials and is able to turn her splendid industrial plant to war purposes in a very short time. With Germany rapidly getting back to her prewar military footing, the rest of the world does not lag far behind. France has just completed a vast chain of fortifications across her Eastern frontier; the armies of Balkanized Southern and Central Europe have reached a new peak in efficiency and numbers. Japan has embarked upon a program of naval and military expansion which threatens to bankrupt the government...
...changes in the state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect in the Houses. Until that happy day, the University may follow one of two roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals. One is inclined to hope that yesterday's manifesto will not commit the University to the former path...
...flaw which Dr. Abbot regretted was an occasional unexpected lag in expected variations, ascribed to irregularity in sunspot development. With long-range weather forecasting as his great goal, he is now preparing temperature & precipitation predictions "for numerous stations in all parts of the world for many years in advance...
...Recovery Administration gave everything," he declared. "There is authority to do everything that ever has been suggested to raise farm prices and if none of the indirect methods work, there is authority to tax the whole public and turn the proceeds over to agriculture to make up for any lag in parity of prices...
...tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will be 31 days since the Recovery Administration began to function; 3) big industries were beginning to lag in submitting their codes to Washington for approval...