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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teaches school instead, proved a most formidable antagonist, took the seat from Lord Scone by nearly 7,000 majority. Connoisseurs observed that of the ten female M.P.'s the only one possessed of both youth and beauty is now the Right Honorable Jenny Lee. As a whole the results of last week's five by-elections were considered, when viewed in the light of local conditions, a great blow to the Conservatives, a good showing for Labor and a brilliant one for the Liberals. Without the yardstick of a knowledge of local conditions the result might seem quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crown & Politics | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...great opportunity of the talking moving picture remains, however, the spread of the Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the hither most parts of the globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW ROMANCE LANGUAGE | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

Great improvements have been made in certain classes of insulating materials during the past few years. As a result, it has been possible to design overhead transmission lines to operate at 220,000 volts. Transformers are built to operate up to 500,000 volts. Furthermore, when lines, transformers, and generators, or switches and similar apparatus are put into service, it is almost safe to predict that they will operate indefinitely without electrical break-down, unless the insulation is damaged by some abnormal electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering School Engaged in Experiments on Cable Insulation | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...quite possible that it is necessary to be absent from a class immediately preceding an examination, so that if there is to be any change of time, the obvious result is that the test is missed and the student is left to the mercies of the instructor. Frequently the instructor himself makes a mistake in the announcement, which, if provisions were properly made whereby all examinations were posted in the CRIMSON, would not have the disastrous effects it now has. If it is necessary to give hour examinations, it might be well to make some arrangement so that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ignorance of the Law-- | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...result of its victory over the Kappa Nu quintet last night at the Freshman Athletic Building, Falcon Club moved into a triple tie with Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Mu for first place in the Inter-Fraternity Basketball League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KAPPA SIGMA IN TRIPLE TIE AT HEAD OF LEAGUE | 3/29/1929 | See Source »

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