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  2. "Times" Specials on Matters of the Moment

    "ANY increase in direct taxation by the Commonwealth will be strongly resented," says a Sydney scribe. Certainly—it always is. But what can ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 672 words
  3. FLYING AGE

    THE successful conclusion of Kingsford-Smith record-breaking flight to England—the establishment of a new ...

    Article : 398 words
  4. TREASURE TROVE

    IF Australia may be described as a country of great wastes, Sydney may truthfully be described as a city of great ...

    Article : 440 words
  5. The Human Puzzle.

    ONE of my recent articles concluded with a reference to the possibility of people allowing the upward have to pass them by. The mineral and vegetable ...

    Article : 580 words
  6. DO YOU KNOW THAT

    "A LITTLE learning is a dangerous thing," somebody once said. Maybe he was right. But, withal, a little ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 544 words
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    AMANULLAH, ex-King of Afghanistan, is looking for a job—(See "Chippy Comments," opposite.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 14 words
  8. TURKS TO HAVE SURNAMES AT LAST?

    Fourteen million Turks are in frantic search of a family name. Warning signals have been up for some time that the Ghazi was contemplating a name ...

    Article : 144 words
  9. KING BORIS MAN OF MANY PARTS

    King Boris, of Bulgaria, the world's only bachelor sovereign, apparently is going to marry Princess Giovanna of Italy, and it is even predicted that the ...

    Article : 214 words
  10. NEWS OF THE WORLD

    RECENTLY I was asked by a professional man who is quite a leading light in his profession, "What is wrong with my game? I nm as ...

    Article : 899 words
  11. World's Largest Life-boat Can Carry 150

    A SPLENDID addition to the fleet of lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was made recently by ...

    Article : 158 words
  12. Million Fights a Year

    Russians engage in a million fist fights each year, in which, quite naturally, at least two million persons take part, according to Dr. Leibovitch, of the ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. The Sight Cured Them!

    When five boys were brought before him at Tottenham (London) Police Court, on summonses for damaging fencing on an allotment, the magistrate called ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. English as She is Spoke in New York

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 words
  15. Roman Lock Defies Locksmiths

    In an ancient tomb recently excavated in Novorossisk (Russia), the workers dug out a number of old Roman coins and an iron lock of peculiar design. ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. Salvaging Sunken Treasure

    Another attempt will be made shortly to recover the treasure of £2,000,000 in gold and silver, which has been lying at the bottom of the sea, some 15 miles off ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. Chicago is Such a Peaceful City!

    "Bootleggers and gangsters?" I asked plaintively The smile of The Man from Chicago broadened. "Gats and hi-jackets?" I queried ...

    Article : 368 words
  18. More Eloquent Than Words

    The Post Office Department of Washington recently forwarded a complaint about mail deliveries on the route from Paradise, N.D., to Watagua, S.D., to ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. WOOD MADE FROM RUBBISH

    Adolph Hawerlander, German chemist, of New York, has a machine for making wood out of rubbish. At a demonstration in his laboratory ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. Wagner's Armours Are Worth £300,000

    Documents said to be worth £300,000, which throw sensational light on the life and loves of Wanner, the great composer, have been discovered accidentally ...

    Article : 329 words
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    One thought the skyscraper had just about arrived at its limit in cloud-reaching. But apparently not. . . . Here is a sample of the new skyscraper brick, with which it is asserted it will be possible to erect buildings 100 stories high! The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
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    John Gilbert, who has been rumored engaged to more screen beauties than anybody else in Hollywood, gave the fans—and Hollywood—a big surprise when recently he and Ina Claire, a newcomer to the screen, went to a registry office in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  23. H.R.H. SIGN DRAWS BERLIN SHOPPERS

    The title "Prince of Wales" in tall gold letters above a busy Berlin street seems suddenly to thrust the World War-more than ten years away. ...

    Article : 67 words
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