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...greatest and most experienced of all Alpine and Himalayan mountain-climbers, and A. C. Irvine, young Oxford graduate and one of the novices of the expedition, had perished on the last attempt. How or where was not known, except that they came a few hundred feet nearer the summit than the record of the 1922 expedition (27,250 feet).* There was no official communique from Colonel Norton, but his last one, written on May 26 in collaboration with Mallory himself, said: "The issue will shortly be decided. The third time we walk up East Rongbuk glacier will be the last...
Whatever steps may be necessary to restore balance. Efforts to reduce taxes, give steady employment and stabilise business, lower freight rates, secure sounder and more economical marketing to bring the prices of what the farmer buys nearer to the prices of what he sells. A protective tariff on farm products. Establishment of a Federal system of cooperative marketing without putting the Government into business...
...they are so much cooler than the 'body of the sun itself, that they appear to us as dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting at the poles of the sun, the spots increase rapidly in number and they move nearer the equator. They are most numerous in parts which correspond to the temperate zones on earth. At the end of the cycle they gradually disappear again; and eleven years after the first cycle began, they start to reappear and proceed through the same process. In 1923 the sun spot cycle...
Storm-trod, nearer God, flung into the fright...
However stunning may have been the effect of the bombshell which M. Geer hurled into the Atlantic City Convention, there is certainly nothing catclysmic in the reactions it arouses nearer home. To any one who has been associated, even in indirectly, with Mr. Geer, his views on school and college athletics appear so sane and logical that any opposition to them seems to reflect a strangely perverted point of view...