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Last week the shields were less than 500 ft. apart. In spite of their huge weight, the distance they have been propelled, and the many difficulties, Chief Engineer Clifford Holland and his staff were confident that the calculations will not be wrong by more than an inch. Each shield weighs...
Not the Russian General of recent military fame, but a Russian explorer who hunted about in the Arctic Ocean for this mysterious land in 1921, gave the island its name. He had heard about it from natives of the Siberian coast. He did not find it, however. It was probably...
At the same time, the present wave of disbelief and somewhat defiant agnosticism may possibly be due to something besides mental growing pains. To say that present day conditions are a bit out of the ordinary and therefore explanatory of much, is undoubtedly a sickening truism; but like most painfully...
* The first American mainland to be sighted Columbus (1498).
The grip in which high schools and colleges have been held by the phantasm of athletic supremacy for the last forty or fifty years is significant of little more than the extremes to which new ideas can be driven. Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for...