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...high-frequency reception over that half of the world lighted by the sun improved instead of faltering. Indeed by Oct. 21-23 it was the best the Bureau had ever observed. Next day-the crucial day-reception fell off sharply by half, and the expected fading occurred. Simultaneously the uppermost main layer of the ionosphere (radio-reflecting region of electrified air) rose from 155 mi. to a record height...
...Vermilion, Ohio (pop. 1,464) one evening last week, neither the poetry of Robert Browning nor the novels of Willa Cather were uppermost in the minds of Mrs. Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked...
...sweater stood up and asked a question. It was the question on the tongue tip of the 1,500 other young men & women at the Choosing A Career Conference sponsored by L. Bamberger & Co. (department store) in Newark, N. J. last week. It was the question uppermost in the minds of thousands of 1934 college graduates. It was the question which the successful careerists on the conference platform found the most difficult to answer. Said the young man in a sweater: "This is all very interesting, but what I want to know is where...
...secondary value of the latter. By exempting a limited number of volunteer students from formal course instruction in their fields, and allowing them to attend only such lectures as they saw fit, a truer estimate of tutorial work could be obtained than is now possible with course requirements uppermost in the minds of both students and authorities. Unhampered by routine course work and time-consuming classes, these students could then devote themselves to getting the most from their tutorial instruction...
...employers who violate codes but is powerless to deal with employes who violate its spirit. In not a single code, except that for coal, has Labor surrendered its right to strike. Its argument is that strikes are often necessary to bring NRA disputes to a head for mediation. Uppermost in many a mind last week as the American Federation of Labor opened its annual convention in Washington (see p. 16) was the stand it would take on the tide of strikes sweeping the land. William Green, president, cautioned all workers as follows: "The right to strike is fundamental...