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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meaning "up-stream," for the Colorado flows roughly southwest. Prior negotiations at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1922, had established the principle that, when the Colorado's torrent is entirely turned to human use, 50% of its volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin states were to have done likewise. But they could not agree. Hence the seven Governors in Denver...
Significance. Since the present Free State executive council or "cabinet" has only 46 supporters in the Dail Eireann (lower chamber) of 153, the entrance of 45 De Valera deputies seemed to promise the swift overthrow of President Cosgrave whose office corresponds exactly to that of "Premier...
...warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks to admit and lower the ship's buoyance so that she could bs steered bottom-ward by horizontal rudders. The Holland type craft was first adopted by the British Navy...
...that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring-suspension giving a lower front effect; a hood larger and more streamlined to the body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked. But from the rear-yes? no? . . . No, there was no visible difference; a new Ford would be scarcely distinguishable from...
...being a stage. Poet Robert Burns would have been interested, for M. Evreinov touches also on the problem of seeing oneself as seen by others. "The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts wherein the human being is distinguishable from lower animals. Whatever one does?brushing hair, walking with poise, eating neatly ?is "theatrical" if self-consciousness enters the process. It is an ingenious thesis, cleverly spun. And, not surprisingly, it is spun too far. Biologists and psychologists, after learning that "theatricalness" is a peculiarly human attribute, will be puzzled...