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Under higher or lower conditions of temperature his efficiency decreases. It was discovered, for example, that in a temperature of 110 degrees man's efficiency is only 18 per cent, a reduction of 6 per cent over his efficiency at 70 degrees. This is the condition in many branches of industry, as in steel mills and glass works. It is believed that further work in this line, and adaptation of its results to practical problems will prove of great value in such branches of commerce...
...have not-officially. I'm the Prime Minister of the Free State and as such the titular head of the state. The Governor-General is appointed on my advice. He is merely the ceremonial representative of the British King. I come up for election in the Dail [the lower house] and have to be approved by the Seanad [the Senate]. Then I appoint my ministers and they are approved in the same manner as I am approved. England has no voice or part in the selection of either myself or my min-isters...
...these words there was an atom of meaning, they implied that Signer Mussolini is meeting, at last, with some success in his ambitious scheme to draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
...other points, the Federal Council voted with comparative unanimity. Advocated by Dr. Charles Stedman MacFar-land, general secretary of the executive committee, sex education was encouraged by the council?"in view of the influences tending to lower the ideals of marriage, weaken the sense of marital, parental, and social responsibility and undermine the home...
...exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions in secondary schools. But with a separation, as President Lowell urges, of the preparation for the two degrees, potential doctors will no longer be restricted by the credit courses which the commercialized lower degree exacts...