Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true destiny of Newfoundland, with her fisheries, her forests, and her mineral wealth lies in the direction of the United States. . . . The Dominion of Newfoundland is coming around to the idea of choosing to become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...
...physicists present a new camera invented by Dr. Clarence Whitney Kanolt of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. It makes pictures seem lifelike. In front of the photographic plate is a glass grating of alternate vertical light and dark lines. In photographing, the camera so moves before the subject that its centre is always on a line with the centre of the camera lens and plate. The finished picture is striped. Some of the stripes show the person or thing from one angle, others from other angles. When a second glass grating is placed over the picture it makes...
...changing and amendment of Boston traffic ordinances in accordance with the code recommended at the Hoover Conference on traffic. Boston also has been affected by the new Massachusetts law which gives supervisory control of all lights and through street regulations to the state. The new signal units will be subject to this...
...Fogg Art Museum, the fourth of a series of lectures on "Modern Painting in Germany from 1800 to 1928" will be given tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock in the large lecture hall of the Fogg Art Museum by Doctor Gustav Paull, director of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany. His subject will be "The Naturalists, Adolf Menzel." The lecture will be open to the public...
...them. But under the White Act, U. S. cable and radio companies may not merge. Surprising, piquant, therefore, was the admission of President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union last week, that he had conferred with Chairman of the Board Owen D. Young of Radio Corp., the subject being a possible, desirable merger...