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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected that the Senate will ratify the treaty. Now that this type of convention has been arrived at, it is expected that France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden will soon negotiate similar agreements...
...manufacture, has increased the word-carrying capacity of the New York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...
Locomotives. The fastest electric locomotives in Europe were put into operation on the Toulouse-Bayonne line of the French Midi Railroad and on the Paris-Orleans Railroad. The locomotives are of the new type on which tests have been conducted by the General Electric Co. and the American Locomotive Co., at Erie, Pa. (TIME, Dec. 17), weighing 102 tons and capable of reaching a speed of 105 miles an hour. The French roads have ordered more than $15,000,000 worth of such equipment, and the Mexican Railway Co., Ltd., ten electric freight units for mountain climbing. With...
...evidence of self-reliant, independent thinking the book has merit; it may be the type of literature needed to stimulate an intellectual awakening and a keener interest in scientific theory. Its unorthodoxy in itself is no criterion. John Stuart Mill once spoke wisely of the "clearer and livlier impression of truth produced by its collision with error...
...Freshmen maintained a lead throughout the game, but the schoolboys were constantly dangerous. They materially outweighed Coach Chase's players and they made the most of this advantage, playing a very rugged type of basketball. Captain Rennard was the mainstay in their attack. He scored four goals from the floor and one from the foul line. Neilson starred on the defense...