Word: subs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the dream of a 3,000-mile sub-Atlantic railway seemed to grow ever so slightly less mad, as Britons and Frenchmen got down again to dealing seriously with their half-century-old project of driving a double-track tunnel under the English Channel, 21 miles across. In London the French Ambassador, popular M. Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau, officially declared at a dinner tendered him in the House of Commons, "When the British Government and the British Nation are ready to build the tunnel we will build it with them. We very much desire...
...most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last week even that ruddy, insular, industrial squire, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, took up sturdy cudgels in its defense. When the House of Commons reassembled last week after a month-long holiday, the Squire-Statesman said...
Maribel Vinson, National Champion Woman Skater, who is a student at Radcliffe, will be the Prima Ballerina of the evening. Miss Vinson placed second in the world championship competition last year. Her corps de Ballet will be composed of Boston debutantes and sub-debutantes, who are reported to cut notable figures...
...they rise at 3 o'clock for lauds, and at 5 o'clock go each to his post: some to herd swine, some to cultivate the fields, some to clerks' desks. Each day has periods for prayer and meditation. To prior and sub-priors they owe utter obedience...
...study of the graphs further shows that a rather definite fifteen month period in solar activity exists as exhibited by both spots and radio reception. This is one of the outstanding results of the investigation to date. Each of these sunspot sub-maxima have indicated increasing solar activity and it does not yet appear possible to state that we have reached the real maximum of the sunspot cycle until the sun peak of 1929 is reached and passed. The intensity of that peak will doubtless decide whether or not the maximum of the present sunspot cycle is reached...