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Nervously buying tickets, gingerly stepping in, worriedly harkening to an unaccustomed roar, certain brave citizens of Tokyo patronized, last week, the first subway to be opened in the Far East. The new line, constructed after U. S. designs, stretches from the Tokyo railway terminus to the amusement park of Asakusa one mile and a half distant...
...main line of this railroad (Cerro de Pasco Railway) is 132 kilometres (about 80 miles) in length and every foot of it is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea. Quite a way up in the air-far above the Moffat road's modest 11,600 feet-but let us consider the Central of Peru, which was- and probably still is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
Surely something must be doue. It is all right to treat foreign ladies cavalierly but an American lady is too rare a genus to know even the scorn of the State department. So these attacks from the other terminus of the Boston and Albany against, not alone a lady, but a lady who charmed the Harvard intellectuals and bound Houdini to despair there vitrolic jobs must be fended...
...other military purposes." 3) The flight of U. S. military aircraft over Panama shall be unrestricted, but other foreign aircraft shall be regulated with the cardinal purpose of protecting the Canal. 4) The U. S. receives in perpetuity the "use, occupation and control" of Manzanilla Island (at the Atlantic terminus of the Canal) and the harbor of Colon...
...Robertson, all prepared for the revival of good dramatic literature in the last three, decades of the century. This is without doubt the characteristic of the book which distinguishes it from any other dealing with the seventy years covered. The planning is strictly teleological; the clear focussing upon the terminus ad queen gives the book unity in view of its diverse contents; this alone would argue for the author's mastery of his materials and the clarity of his presentation...