Word: occured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several facts are apparent with relation to the building situation: demand for buildings still outruns the supply, but prices are now so high that the demand may remain potential only and not effective, with the result that a disastrous collapse in the industry may occur. It is better for all parties that this should not happen; on the other hand, the renter must not be forgotten. As the speculative builder loses, the tenant will benefit. Rentals in most parts of the country are now very high, even compared with other prices, and business cannot proceed on a sound foundation until...
...specially constructed cameras were made,--the diameter of the lens being five inches and the focal length 15 feet. These cameras had refracting lenses and were pointed directly at the point in the sky where the eclipse would occur. This avoided any distortions due to expanding and contracting mirrors. The photographic plates were of plate glass and were 17 inches square. The temperate climate of Australia further facilitated matters...
Aside from its practical uses, it has furnished much extra revenue, for collectors often buy a new issue of-stamps as they come off the plates, and thus present the Government with so much gift-money. And when "errors" occur such as an inverted head, or an omitted numeral, enthusiasts are willing to spend a fortune to obtain the curiosity. Such a stamp, with the picture of an aeroplane upside down in a 24 cent frame, has been valued at 1000 dollars per copy...
...they are forced to clear up the provinces or suffer a foreign army to undertake the task. That same threat, directed at a feebly inactive Mexican government, brought results; and, strangely enough, eventually brought the government itself greater power and prestige in its own country. The same thing may occur in China; the administration, in satisfying the demand to destroy brigandage, may find itself more firmly seated at Peking...
...Clayton declared, "students have found that there are large variations in the heat radiated by that body, and that from one day to the next the differential may be as much as two or three percent of the total. It has also been observed, however, that the oscillations occur in a fairly regular manner, and that the phenomena of maximum or minimum heat recur in periods of about 11 years. This length of time is intimately connected with the number of 'sun spots', the radiation varying directly with the amount of solar disturbance indicated by the gaseous eruptions, or spots...