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Liberal Premier King kept his Cabinet going on the slenderest of majorities until his defeat by one ballot and resignation a fortnight ago. (TIME, July 5.) Last week Conservative leader Arthur Meighen stepped confidently into the Premiership. Within 72 hours he, too, suffered defeat. Lest this teetering and tottering continue indefinitely, Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy promptly dissolved the Canadian House of Commons...
...appeared that the aged (he is 78) Field Marshal had remained indurately opposed to accepting nomination until a loud knock sounded on the door of No. 15 Wedekindstrasse, Hanover, and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz appeared to undermine Hindenburg's resistance. It was subsequently given out on the slenderest authority that the ex-Kaiser at Doorn had intervened to command the old man to stand for election ; and that the latter, faithful and true to the former Emperor and King, had immediately made Tirpitz's heart glad by accepting the nomination...
...little man, aged 33, English-born, pro at Englewood Golf Club, N. J., weighing but 118 pounds and equipped with the slenderest of wrists, had, by consistently brilliant play, polished off three of the four rounds in the U. S. Open Golf Championship at the uniform rate of 74 strokes per round? which in each case was two over the difficult...
...more than ten per cent. give any attention whatever to physical exercise, and that less than six per cent. take it systematically as a means of culture and development. Surely, then, the charge that too much time is given to muscular education in our literary institutions has the slenderest possible foundation in the facts of the case. And it must be evident, too, that the members of college crews and ball nines are not in any proper sense representatives of the physical condition of the average students in their respective institutions. The bane of American college life today...