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...profoundly. It is now an open question whether democracy and the system of jurisprudence which is associated with it can meet successfully the ever more difficult tasks which the momentous economic and political forces of our day thrust upon them. It is no longer sufficient that a law school transmit the accumulated body of legal knowledge and give proficient training in legal practice. If the bar and bench are not to be a dead hand upon the process of social and economic readjustment and invention with which our generation must necessarily concern itself, then the schools of law must undertake...
...Great Britain expects to be paid in "land annuities" nearly one-quarter of the tax revenue of the Free State, Mr. de Valera exclaimed: "Britain finds the ?37.000,000 due the United States [yearly] almost unbearable. What appeal would she not make to the world if she had to transmit abroad a fourth of her tax revenue as we have had to do! ... If she paid the United States proportionately as much as she expects us to pay, she would pay the United States...
Only males can suffer haemophilia. Only females can transmit it. Mysterious and incurable,? this rare disease blighted the last of the Romanovs as it blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina...
...Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic reported the cure of many cases of Buerger's Disease by stripping from the affected arteries all the nerves which transmit irritating stimuli...
...board. The electrical engineering is the work of Walther Nernst, German physicist: electrical equipment by Siemens & Halske A. G.; pianobuilding by C. Bechstein. "Claviphone" is one of the names suggested for it. Principle is. simply, that microphones pick up the vibrations, fundamental tones and overtones of the strings and transmit them to a loudspeaker. Encased in a box of standard shape but small size (4 ft. 7 in. long-a concert grand piano is 9 ft. long), the strings are stretched in radiating groups of five instead of the usual criss-cross pattern. Fewer strings for each note are needed...