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...deal of heavy fighting after Brussels, Belgrade and Bucharest had fallen to the Central Powers. Abd-el-Krim is still at large. And the Spanish attack of last week, crowned by the fall of his "capital" though it be, represents an actual advancement of the Spanish front by a scant four miles...
...light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...weather, when plates came to be developed they were found to be blank, for some reason unknown to the photographer or the Seniors in charge. Accordingly, the Senior picture will be retaken at 1 o'clock today on the steps of Widener, with none of yesterday's celebrations a scant five minutes will suffice...
...conference which has, for the past three months, been sitting in Peking to consider the means of reunifying China was dissolved last week. Intelligence concerning the deliberation of the conference has been scant, apparently because there has been nothing significant to report. The main result of the conference is the calling of a "citizens' conference which is to report to a commission appointed to draw up a new constitution." But with Tuchun* flying at the throat of Tuchun, and no Tuchun strong enough to rule the others, the mere thought of a constitution seems as out of place...
When the cameras had been set up, the chairs placed, and the steps of the Widener Library marked off yesterday in preparation for the pictures of the Senior and Freshman classes, the setting was complete but for one item, the Senior class. For only a scant two score of Seniors came bashfully through the Yard, in newly donned caps and gowns to observe the time-honored custom of the picture. The others were deterred from attending by the noxious mists and the threatened rain...