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...Senate had, among others, recently looked inquisitively into the waters of the Panama Canal; he talked persuasively to the President, of the need for a Nicaragua canal, to cost between $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. As an economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability of the present canal to airplane attack. Army engineers begged to differ, with everybody, grouchily suggested that the talk of a Nicaragua canal was plain...
...Senator Edge's statement that another lock in the Panama Canal or a new canal through Nicaragua will soon be necessary, is flatly contradicted by a recent report of the Senate Appropriations Committee which indicates that the Panama Canal is now operating at less than half capacity and that the tonnage passing through it has never approached the peak reached...
...Arabs leave a top-lock upon their shaven polls...
...Pound Class--Haynes, Tufts, won from Johnson, M. I. T., Fall double arm lock. Time...
...movement now seen on every hand that leads to the special handling of individual cases and to giving special individuals special privileges so as to let them get more out of their studies, is taken to be perhaps the chief educational tendency of the times. It will destroy the "lock step" into which the traditional curriculum has fallen...