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Throughout the week, interest focused on David Lloyd George, now Liberal leader, but long estranged from Asquith. What would he say? Would he conceal his pleasure at being left alive to dominate alone throughout the Liberal sphere...
...necessary. The Vagabond searched his cataloguic, almost encyclopedeaic mind for the things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic country. Free press--even the tabloids cost, or retail at, two cents. Free lunch--scarcely to be classed among the best things of this mortal sphere. Free love--ah! was this a hint? Did the fair damsel suggest amorous dalliance. Impossible. There was no mistletoe. Besides amorous dalliance might be called "petting", a thing abhorrent to gentlemen of the old school who indulged only in spooning. But still, she had had a glass of champagne....Could...
...error in the original stellar calculations was detected yesterday morning when a mountain observatory in Oregon sighted the speeding sphere under conditions of visibility more favorable than those to be found in Cambridge...
...Successful industrial management in the future is going to depend more and more upon management of men rather than upon the organization of machines and other problems which are ordinarily considered in the sphere of practical engineering. For the most part and generally speaking the engineering profession may be said to have solved or laid the groundwork of solution for the essential problems of the engineer in his technical field. Experience shows, however, that industry's most important task in this day of large-scale production is management of men on a human basis...
...first important discoveries concerned the electrical effect of lightning on the earth. The earth is, of course, a great sphere, and carries an enormous charge of negative electricity. About 100 strokes of lightning hit the entire earth every second. Professor Wilson measured their power...