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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regrettable that the controversy about the latest English 72 examination has been so obscured by invective and the attempt to be humorous on the part of the various commentators on the merits and defects of the said examination. Slightly varying the words of Dr. Johnson, "They have been carried away by the exhuberance of their own verbosity." The letter of "J. Prendergast Elliott" is no more Billingsgate than the last, wherein the previous writers are anathematized as asses. It is regrettable for the reason that the issues raised touch the fundamentals of the Harvard educational policy, and a little more...
...passenger, Willibald Seypelt, German flier during the War. Enthusiastically, Pilot Seypelt told the U. S. tourist of a tiny plane made in Stuttgart, after the designs by one Hans Klemm. Together they went to Stuttgart, found a little monoplane, with long low-set wings and a short body, the latest idea in European airplane design. Only 22 feet long, it had a wingspread of 43 feet. A 29-h.p. Klemm-Daimler motor furnished the power to carry about 400 pounds...
...latest measurements of the cosmic ray (TIME, November 23, 1925) prove it to consist of definite bands of color, like the light from a Cooper-Hewitt mercury arc, but the spectral region in which the bands occur corresponds to frequencies 100,000,000 times greater than those emitted by the Cooper-Hewitt arc. Having measured the ray, Dr. Millikan sat down to figure out its importance. He turned to Einstein's theories. He found, using the Einstein equation (M C 2-E), that the most conspicuous band in the cosmic ray spectrum is probably the same band that would...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced...
...Theatre Collection includes books, pamphlets, original drawings, photographs, prints, playbills, and relics; from the earliest seventeenth century playbill to the latest Broadway program, the files of this collection are as nearly complete as the efforts of lifelong collectors and specialists have been able to make them...