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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Typhoon of 1905, the Empire was smitten by a no less violent typhoon which whirled through the neighboring cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, blew millions of tons of seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...
...Edward charged that the Dominion's high proportion of air accidents is due to disobedience of orders or bad flying discipline; that Australia's prized fighting plane, the Wirraways, similar to the U. S. Army's North American BT 9, possesses insufficient speed for a modern fighter and is fit only for a temporary expedient or a training ship: that all Australia's service squadrons are below strength in men and oncers...
...busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than the bank ever was. Laid out by experts from Washington, such a Federal art gallery as that in Laramie, Wyo. has all the elegance of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In Miami, Fla., Negro children at a Negro extension gallery have life classes...
English translators have generally found the Greek tragic poets too much for them, have produced tortured versions in an idiom neither poetic nor colloquial and almost impossible to read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes...
Among the many features of this modern building is a library of 200,000 volumes with reading rooms, administration offices and stacks. It also contains an auditorium with a seating capacity of 200, seminar rooms for small conferences; and offices for professors, consultants, and secretaries. On the top floor is a lounging room which may be used as a lunchroom as well for informal meetings...