Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday,? Oct. 28, Turks must remain indoors for a national counting of heads?so ran the fiat of the Ghazi, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic...
This does not mean, however, that the national debt of France has been reduced in the same proportion as its debt to the Bank of France, for some of the amount was only canceled against new conversion bonds subscribed by the French public, which still remain a governmental liability. However, the position of the Bank, which last year was in sore straits, is much improved; for, meantime it has increased its gold reserves to $800,000,000 and holds nearly $1,000,000,000 in foreign currencies, which represents credit transactions made possible by the repatriation of French capital...
...caribou. The possibilities of such herding are already indicated by the half million reindeer that have been reared in northern Alaska from a herd of 1,300 introduced in 1902. The Antarctic will always be less important than the Arctic economically, thinks, Dr. Brown, but it offers what remains in the world of spectacular pioneering. Huge "missing stretches" of the supposed Antarctic continent remain to be mapped. The terrific Antarctic blizzards have yet to be explained. Without referring directly to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's proposed Antarctic airplane survey next year, Dr. Brown deprecated exploration from...
...tightly and smoothly does Dr. Zweig draw the membrane of transparent prose over the tissue of his situations that the science-conscious reader cannot help regarding these cases as studies sooner than stories. Yet excellent stories they remain, of a forcible, clinical reality. Their few faults are where the scientist betrays the craftsman in over-insistence upon data. Elsewhere the craftsman dramatizes the data unforgettably, especially in a long passage where the emotions of a dozen people at a roulette table are followed, as in cinema, by watching the restless activity of their hands...
...North American Review, born 1815, and thus the oldest magazine in the U. S., will (with the October issue) become a monthly instead of a quarterly. It will remain an "article" magazine dealing with current events. More sprightliness, timeliness, is promised...