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  2. FOUR DEFINITIONS OF EFFICIENCY.

    Since this discussion must turn upon the meaning of the word "efficiency," it may be well to begin by making sure of its exact content. Here, then, are the successive ...

    Article : 308 words
  3. THIEF HAD LOOT HOARDED.

    Henry Jones, known to the underworld of London as "Diamond Dick," a notorious criminal, was arrested the other day on a charge of attempting to pick pockets. ...

    Article : 95 words
  4. ELECTRIFYING THE LOCOMOTIVE.

    With the nation at war straining every resource to make an effective showing on the battlefields of Europe, the use of the electric locomotive as a means of locomotion is not ...

    Article : 917 words
  5. BREVITIES.

    Red-haired people are least likely to go bald. There are more fragrant white flowers than of any other color. ...

    Article : 474 words
  6. DEEP-SEA FISHES AT SURFACE.

    An admirably equippod station for biological research was opened at Messina, Sicily, in December, 1916. In a recently published account of the station, Prof. L. Joubin calls ...

    Article : 217 words
  7. A MARVELLOUSLY EFFICIENT ARMY.

    In one department of human endeavor, it is true, this superior efficiency may seem to have been demonstrated—in the preparation for war. They had determined to crush ...

    Article : 125 words
  8. IS YOUR HEART IN THE WAR?

    Lincoln once said to some of those who criticised the men he put in charge of war matters: "I try to select men whose hearts are in the work." ...

    Article : 314 words
  9. WOMEN, LEARN TO SHOOT.

    London girls are learning to shoot. A great number of young women employed in the city offices devote a portion of their luncheon hour in practice at Sir Charles ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. BRITISH MAYOR AS SOLOMON.

    The Mayor of Kingston, England, has been acting as the modern Solomon. He was not called upon to decide the ownership of a child, but the ownership of certain household ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. ARE THE GERMANS REALLY EFFICIENT.

    We have heard so much in the past three years about the marvellous efficiency of the Germans, they have boasted about it so superabundantly, and they have so ...

    Article : 323 words
  12. SOME INTERESTING SNEEZING SUPERSTITIONS.

    Snooziug superstitions are prevalent all over the world. In Scotland it has been maintained, that idiots are incapable of snoozing, and the ...

    Article : 287 words
  13. RANGE-FINDING.

    Skilled range-finders can guage the distances of butteries by means of sound. They note the time between the Hash of a gun and the sound of the report. If four seconds ...

    Article : 57 words
  14. THE NEW "YANKEE" GAS BOMB.

    When Germany [?]t Schrecklichkeit into the vocabulary of war, and attempted to bring a premature peace by making strife so terrible that enemies of Kultur would cry for quarter. ...

    Article : 2,183 words
  15. TOO SLOW.

    A violinist was engaged by a woman, whose husband had acquired recent wealth, to play at a dinner she was giving. The agreement was that he was to furnish music from eight ...

    Article : 91 words
  16. £84,000 IN PICTURES.

    Under enemy fire, the sale took place of the art collection of the late Edward Degas (some of whose pictures appear in the Lane collection in Dublin), the purchase realising ...

    Article : 61 words
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