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...move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from the tallest elevator shaft in the Woolworth Building during one of the severest wind storms that have visited New York City this winter, revealed a away of only 5-8 of an inch...
...industry has been sunk deeper by Depression than transatlantic shipping. Plumb lines measuring the depth: a 30% to 50% decrease this year in American tourist traffic; a corresponding $250,000,000 drop in European tourist receipts. Last week, at the insistence of the Britishers, 18 major transatlantic lines met in Paris to take action...
...flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...
Neither specific nor satisfactory, the Daily Herald's story was nevertheless a bold first attempt to plumb the mystery of what Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England and Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York did differ about last November. Mr. Norman had joined Mr. Harrison on the S. S. Bremen at Southampton, seemingly to accompany him to New York. But when the Bremen reached Cherbourg the Governor of the Bank of England got off with his valet and his bags, rushed back to London, has not since been to Manhattan (TIME...
There is only one way out of the gravelike calm into which the Green and Gold ship has meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis...