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...heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It next runs through two coagulant pots, of soda ash and alum. which prevent undue acidity. The great work of filtration is done by a tank containing 27 tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction...
...announcement that Governor Ritchie will speak in Boston during the week has evidently relegated Orthodoxy to a minor position in favor of the more pertinent question of Prohibition. For the good of the people, perhaps, the pernicious influence of the English scholar has been allowed to seep in to keep their attention occupied while the Law and Order brigade amuses itself by presenting a cold shoulder to the Maryland...
Once again country-wide debate on Prohibition moved to new ground last week when the subject upcropped without warning before the twenty-first conference of Governors assembled at New London, Conn. (seep. 11). Heretofore these political meetings had studiously avoided this political subject. When governors did debate it last week, their sentiment was preponderantly Dry, as was to be expected among politicians discussing the law of the land...
...news. Time and again the authorities have shown themselves ignorant of publicity values, lax in their handling, and reckless of the consequences of inaccuracy and misrepresentation which are traceable directly to their sluggishness. When there is news to be given out officially, none is given; it is permitted to seep out through any one of many channels...
...South China Nationalist Government at Nanking has recently suffered the loss of 3,000 troops killed or wounded in the course of Japanese intervention in Shantung (seep...