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...Flutter" is the name given to a rapid, rippling vibration which most commonly affects the unsupported wing of a monoplane, sometimes causing it to tear apart, but which at high speeds may affect the tail. Working with a model of the crashed plane, the investigators found it could not have flown fast enough to produce tail-flutter. But at slow speeds, they discovered, the plane's low wing could set up wicked eddying currents which wrenched the tail up and down, destroying all control. This they called "buffeting," and concluded it had sent the Junkers into its fatal dive...
...great & virtuous Yen Hsi-shan, long "model Governor" of Shansi Province, now defeated, selfexiled. Some of the "attendants" said that Marshal Yen yearns to tour first Japan, next the U. S., will shortly do so. Others said he will settle down at Beppu, Japan's Karlsbad, lately the refuge of that other Chinese exile, notorious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, so brazen that he calls his attendants "concubines" and worse (TIME...
While sturdy rioters are not wanting among American colleges, political issues can seldom arouse any distinct enthusiasm. Such an organization as the Model League of Nations meets with little undergraduate response, and this year a large university like Yale did not have sufficient interest to even participate. A presidential parade may occasionally draw out the students in numbers, but a love of excitement is undoubtedly the chief attraction. Whatever the condition of the country's politics, the average undergraduate is usually far more occupied by other concerns...
...time in this country, which might be devoted to discussion. Notwithstanding, the attitude of unconcern adopted by college men toward politics and foreign affairs is surprising to those familiar with the more mature outlook of European Universities. This unconcern is exemplified by the meagre interest displayed in the Model League of Nations...
...League of Nations Model Assembly Council of New England Colleges is an informal and self-perpetuating organization whose activities are limited to the arrangement of an annual model convention of the League of Nations...