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It is a tribute to Mr. Watt's far-sighted idealism that the Experiment in International Living has never lost sight of its fundamental purpose and aim-to create lasting friendships among the youth of different nations. Since it is conducted on a non-profit basis, it has provided immeasurable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Travel in Europe, Contact With Life in Foreign Lands Offered to Men in College | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

(4 of 6) yield to Japan's demand for parity? "We never have," replied Mr. Davis. Then with a diplomat's sense of the danger of saying "No," he hastily added: "But I'd rather you did not ask that." Jarless. The third member of the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Professionals to London | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

Clearly, then, the Union must define and undertake the far-sighted activities so vaguely sketched in Mr. Sweezy's statement. Professor Holcombe, President of the other body, has stated that the Association is enough for the older men, but that the Union is needed to satisfy the aspirations of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOK FORWARD, YOUNG TEACHERS | 11/12/1935 | See Source »

Howland and Baker, 25 mi. apart, are some 1,100 mi. due west of Jarvis. Howland was first sighted by Captain George E. Netcher out of New Bedford in 1842. Fifteen years later the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally took the islands for the U. S. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Howland, Baker & Jarvis | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

"For the first second of fall there was a horizontal velocity of about 175 ft. per sec. and a vertical acceleration . . . of about 16 ft. per sec. At the same time there was a tumbling motion of the body making a complete revolution in about two seconds. Of all these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Feel of Fall | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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