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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centre of last week's quake was located three miles from Manila's downtown district. Seismologists rated the force of the first tremor between five and six on the scale which measures the lightest shocks as one, heaviest on record as ten. In Cambridge, Mass, last week. Dr. Lewis Don Leet of Harvard first learned of the quake by telegraph...
...Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa in command. The Idumo was moored opposite Shanghai's International Settlement, and ten days of bombing, shelling and one attempted torpedoing had so far damaged her but slightly. Sixteen miles downstream, where the Whangpoo River joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four battleships, six battle cruisers, 38 destroyers and one of Japan's four aircraft carriers. Most were slowly steaming back & forth to avoid almost constant sniping from Chinese on shore. At times there were as many as 20 Japanese warships...
Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...
...apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit Specialist Fred A. Motz of the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics, who pointed out that good apples from South America, South Africa and New Zealand are finding favor in Europe, thus giving U. S. apples real competition. The mass of delegates consoled themselves by playing golf, dancing and wishing there were more delegates among them like light-haired, blue-eyed Abraham Kouris, 37, of Tel Aviv, Palestine. A Russian who speaks six languages, Appleman Kouris is the leading importer of apples to the region, where according to tradition...
After celebrating Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Pius XI motored through the gardens of his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, then got out of his auto and walked about for several minutes. It was his longest walk this year...