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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every group of nationals irrespective of size to set up its own government. Nevertheless the Croats, who are the most strenuously malcontent, must feel that the establishment of the new state was merely an exchange of alien governors. It will be a tribute to the Serbians and the progress of humanity in general towards liberalism if the-rule of the Hapsburgs, does not rise in retrospect to the dignity of that of a King...
...major Whalen accomplishment was decentralization of the force. The major lack of accomplishment seemed to be a lack of tangible progress in the Rothstein murder case, which occasioned the Whalen appointment...
...place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges, now crossing streams, now going through woods, seeing here a country house, there a little village, and perhaps a hunt in progress with Master, followers, and hounds hard on the heels of a fox, one senses again the pleasures of country living, knowing that the towers of Oxford are not far away
...Some progress has been made in the correlation of temperature changes with radio reception and while concomitant variation markedly exists it is doubtful if the relation is one of cause and effect. It seems far more plausible that changes in solar activity are more directly responsible for variations in the signal strengths received than that such should be dependent upon any absolute value in atmosphere temperature...
Oscar Tschirky, it is said, passed by while excavations were in progress. "What's going to be built here?" he asked; and learning that it was to be a new hotel, he asked...