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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what may well be considered the forthcoming election, there are two Parties which will be prominent: Labor, which will have capital levy as its main plank; Liberal, united under Lloyd George, or more probably a center party (which would let in Mr. George's Conservative as well as his Liberal supporters), whose main plank will be a Government unemployment insurance scheme. This is expected to be more popular with the masses than Labor's capital levy. Moreover, Mr. George's American tour is adjudged to be of prime political importance to British politics...
...translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves to assume a corresponding pattern. At the receiving end is a magnet, moved by the waves, which controls either a beam of light acting on a photographic plate or an ink drawing instrument. The main benefit of the process will, of course, be in quick transmission of pictures for newspaper use. By it banks can verify signatures of foreign tourists...
...machines. Abrams' main card is his method of "splanchno-diagnosis" (abdominal). It is applied to blood specimens, cultures of tissues from the body of a patient, or even to samples of his handwriting! The tests may be conducted in absentia with the patient 3,000 miles away. For best results the samples must be taken under certain prescribed conditions?dim light, no red in room, patient facing west! The specimens are placed on aluminum electrodes in a small, round box called a "dynamizer," connected by an elaborate wiring system with a "rheostat dynamizer" for amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate...
...among students in Education, similar to Phi Beta Kappa in liberal arts, elected 14 members recently. Each new member presented a 1200 word thesis on some subject pertaining to education. Dean Holmes of the School of Education spoke briefly and George A. Merick Lecturer on Elementary Education, have the main address of the evening. The meeting was held at the Colonial Club...
Before sinking a large sum of money into a permanent plant, it is of course proper and necessary to consider the site for the plant. The main consideration in this case, as Mr. Moore has brought out, is accessibility. But it is hard to agree with him that Hemenway is in a central position and therefore the most likely place for a new pool. By citing the Linden Street squash courts as an example, Mr. Moore has made it plain that the center of accessibility is not north but south of Massachusetts Avenue. For it is highly probable that...