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  3. LIFE IN LONDON

    At a time when much is heard of the dangers of a Communist upheaval in Great Britain there is an air of obstinate stability about his Majesty's ...

    Article : 218 words
  4. POPULAR SCIENCE

    The highest pressure yet considered for so large a motor is believed to be the 1450lb to 1750lb of a coalmine steam turbine being built in Czecho-Slovakia. It ...

    Article : 46 words
  5. VALUE OF SUNLIGHT.

    Brain stimulation by sunlight exposure is very marked, according to Sir Henry Ganvain, a British surgeon. A group of children receiving sunlight treatment in a ...

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  6. NO ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS.

    Sir William Crookes, and Moissan, the French chemist, claim to have made very small artificial diamonds. Sir Charles Parsons, however, told the Royal ...

    Article : 66 words
  7. ELECTRIC PROSPECTING.

    The ore-locating process of Swedish engineers—known as the Lundkerg-Nathorst method—is claimed to have pointed out a deposit of copper pyrites 30ft deep under ...

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  8. UNIVERSITY RUGGER PROSPECTS

    University Rugger is now in full swing, and which a couple of fixtures in nearly each week until the end of November the Oxford and Cambridge ...

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  9. TAXATION IN CHANNEL ISLANDS

    The Channel Islands enjoy an enviable immunity from taxation, and are much favoured as a place of residence by Government pensioners and people with ...

    Article : 300 words
  10. ASHRIDGE PARK.

    It looks as if Lord Brownlow's greet park at Ashridge, near Berkhampstead, might become the property of the nation. The place is so famous, and so ...

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  11. SMALL WATER-POWER PLANTS.

    While large water-powers are being rapidly utilised, many streams capable of developing small power are running to waste. A recent suggestion is that many ...

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  12. SENSITIVENESS OF FILMS.

    In efforts to solve the mystery of rapid photographic dry plates, workers at the Eastman Kodak Company's research laboratory have found that of four ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. AN AVIATION FEAT.

    A remarkable feat has been performed by American airmen. An aeroplane in flight has established contact with another her machine, and has re-fueled. A test ...

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  14. SCOTTISH LORD RECTORSHIP

    This is the busy season in connection with that anomalous post, the Lord Rectorship, of a Scottish University. Lord Cecil has just delivered his rectoral ...

    Article : 344 words
  15. PEERS AND SHOPS

    A few days ago the shutters were drawn over the windows of a little decorator's shop on the borders of Belgravia, says a writer in a London paper. ...

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  16. GIGANTIC TELESCOPE LENS.

    A 41in telescope lens now being constructed at Newcastle for a Siberian observatory is not the "world's biggest," though it is perhaps, the biggest used ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. SCOTTISH NATIONAL LIBRARY

    Last Monday was formally instituted the Scottish National Library. The Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, founded three hundred years ago by Sir George ...

    Article : 254 words
  18. LOGS FOR HOLDING BANKS.

    Sprouting poles of white willow constitute the hinder for protecting the shores of lakes and streams, in the method patented by Mr. O. S. Scheifele, a ...

    Article : 204 words
  19. TCHEKHOV'S "SEA-GULL."

    The critics of Tchekhov would seem to hold very different opinions. One affirms that there is no difference between the plays of this Russian ...

    Article : 297 words
  20. MEDICAL TRADE UNIONS

    Mr. Bernard Shaw's letter in "The Times" last week raises a much larger question than the mere restoration of Dr. Axham to the Medical Register. Dr. ...

    Article : 365 words
  21. TWO-COLOUR LUMINOUS TUBES.

    The two-colour luminous tubes of M. Georges Claude, the French experimenter with gases, contain neon and mercury, ingeniously made to glow ...

    Article : 188 words
  22. SCENES OF INDIA AND EGYPT

    Scenes in India, Egypt, and Italy are depicted in the water-colours of Mr. R. H. Kitson, R.B.A., now on view in the Fine Art Galleries in Bond-street. If ...

    Article : 338 words
  23. LORD RIBBLESDALE

    With Lord Ribblesdale passes one of the most picturesque figures in England. The famous Sargent portrait did not flatter him, and whether he was dressed in town ...

    Article : 294 words
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