Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Only men who can send and receive 15 words per minute, Continental code, are accepted. Some previous radio experience, such as would be obtained by an amateur operator, is expected but not compulsory...
...Washington, Mr. Willard said, the roads of the country can respond without delay to the transportation needs of the Government whenever they arise, and according to the opinion of railway officials the efficiency of the roads as a whole can thereby be increased by about 25 or 33 per cent...
...must be solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better the distribution of articles of food. The problem of transportation includes the transportation of seeds, tools, fertilizers and labor to the sections...
...face the first of the special final examinations, the outlook is not encouraging. There have been unmistakable signs of slackness in the college routine, for instance, in the preparation of the annual study cards for the Committee on Electives. With barely a week left ninety-four per cent of the undergraduates have shirked this simple duty. In itself a minor matter, such a record today has a fateful significance. It indicates a curious lack of perspective, and, worse still, a lack of self-control--precisely what the critics have asserted...
...will also explain the details of the battalion he is forming. After the talk plans will be discussed for radio instruction for those who intend to join either the Naval Reserve or the Signal Corps Reserve and are not yet up to the requirements of 15 words per minute. Professor G. W. Pierce, director of the Cruft High-Tension Electrical Laboratory, expects to be able to provide ample facilities for giving instruction to this class...