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Plans for the future were discussed and the record of the past year reviewed. With the three-transmitting sets which are now in active operation on top of the Stadium, the Club next year expects to even surpass the recent it made this year, which included communication with every continent of the world, excepting Asia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Club Elects | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

...year preceding by 14,000 tons, and 40,000 tons under the 1920 record. But Canadian output, last year, rose 87,000 tons over 1923, and was 54% over its 1920 production. Experts now predict that, in 1925 and subsequent years, Canada's newsprint paper output will surpass that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newsprint Paper | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...value of such a compilation is determined primarily by three things; completeness, logical arrangement, and accuracy. In the first two respects the 1924-25 Register would seem to surpass all previous editions; accuracy can only be established by use and extended study of the material. Of course a snap and popular judgement is usually based on whether or not one's own name is correctly speeled, but to all appearances the new edition is as accurate as any such listing could be and a good deal more so than most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS REGISTER ANOTHER FEATHER IN COUNCIL CAP | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...institution "will surpass the medical centres of any European capital," including Berlin and Vienna. There will be ten ward floors with 64 beds on each. Each floor will be divided into small wards of from one to twelve beds. Efforts will be made to make the patient feel that he is not one of many, that he will receive all the personal attention possible in a small hospital, with the advantage of resources never before equaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greatest Centre | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...looked at the memorial group which the villagers of St. Heminy have erected in honor of their eminent neighbor in his lifetime. It is a fitting tribute to his achievements. But some day, perhaps, only Les Invalides will surpass the monuments in Paris which a grateful Nation will erect to Georges Clemenceau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Immortal | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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