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...Japanese in boggy, half-flooded, malarial country near Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze River below Hankow. Even skeptical foreign observers were inclined to take at face value last week the Chinese claim that this desperate counteroffensive threw the Japanese back for heavy losses on the whole width of a 45-mile salient...
Castellon added to the territory, the Rightist corridor from Teruel to the Mediterranean will be almost doubled in width from 35 to 60 miles (see map). Even more important than a gain of square miles was actual possession of Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be brought by Rightist ships to Rightist troops, at present forced to bring supplies hundreds of miles overland. Next Rightist goal will be Valencia, 40 miles to the south, for more than a year the capital of Leftist Spain, third largest city of the country. Advance down this rugged coast line...
Prime piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to Moth inch. The animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing...
...Supreme Court unanimously decided that South Carolina could do what it liked with its own roads. Last week South Carolina considered resolutions to show that it was not entirely unreasonable. Over 2,400 miles of paved highways, 16 ft. to 20 ft. wide, it has long limited the width of motor trucks to 90 in., their weight to 20,000 lb. Only in four other States-all in the South-is the gross weight of trucks fixed so low; nowhere but in South Carolina is there such a narrow (90 in.) width limit. Most U. S. trucks...
...measure written assignments by quarto pages of the common 8 1-2 by 11 inch size. The impression seems to prevail that a page is a page for a' that; and the student may use single, double, or even triple space at will and leave margins of a width not prescribed. This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told my guest that the universal practice in the literary shop is to measure...