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Moving by horse again the party made a permanent camp for two weeks at Fortress Pass, during which time Ostheimer, Fuherer, Weber, de Laittre, and Maclaurin made a side trip into Lick Creek Valley. From there Mt. Catacombs was ascended for the first time, as well as Mt. "Lowell," 10,300 feet, named by the party in honor of President Lowell...
...thousand members of the American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) went to French Lick, Ind., last week for their 25th annual convention. There, in haunts usually filled by politicians clandestinely trading their influences, testers frankly presented 80 reports and papers on various metals, cements, ceramics, paints, oils, petroleum products, timber, coal, coke, rubber, textiles...
World Quart. Although the A.S.T.M. is engaged in standardizing specifications for materials used industrially and has set up 497 distinct standards, at the French Lick meeting they did nothing about establishing a world quart, about applying the metric system of weights & measures to all U. S. uses...
Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...
...past, said. "You've heard what started the World War, haven't you? Here is what the Kaisor says about it: 'One day Theodore Roosevelt called on me, and after we bad joked for a while, he jovially slapped me on the back and said that I could lick the world; and I was foolish enough to try.' Who knows what the next war will be about...