Word: maining
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Liechtenstein, except for the Principality of Monaco (8 square miles), and the Republic of San Marino (38 square miles.), is the smallest independent country in Europe, having an area of 65 square miles. The capital is Vaduz, where, it is said, cows graze in the main streets. Until 1868 the Principality maintained an army of 91, but in that year the army was abolished. The population, mostly of German extraction and Catholic in religion, is about 11,000. The budget in 1922 was balanced at 384,500 Swiss francs ($66,441), and there is no public debt. The language...
...severe earthquake occurred at 5 :50 a. m. Jan. 15, on Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, in approximately the same area as the Great Earthquake of last September (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.). The amplitude of the shock, as registered by the seismograph at the Osaka Observatory, was two inches of lateral movement, or half that recorded for the Great Earthquake...
...Freshman wrestling team will open its season at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the main floor at Hemenway gymnasium against the Springfield Y. M. C. A. Freshmen, contrary to previous announcement...
...well-balanced team chosen from the best of the squad of 40 Freshman wrestlers, the largest since the establishment of the sport at the University, the 1927 matmen will open their season against the Springfield Y. M. C. A. Freshmen this afternoon. The meet will start on the main floor at Hemenway gymnasium at 3 o'clock...
What method the Committee will recommend for limitation is, in its particulars, difficult to surmise. What its chief characteristic will be is perhaps fore-shadowed by the report, which flatly states that "the main consideration must always be the educational one." In other words, in limiting the size of its enrolment. Harvard will be consistently considered not as an asylum for amateur billiard players, a refuge for refractory aristocrats or an agency of the Parents League, but as an educational institution, existing primarily for those who seek an education. And with this settled the problem of the method of limitation...