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F. G. Swann</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Animating Jupiter</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>For the First Time Direct Motion Pictures of a Rotating Planet Have Been Made-- Astronomical Correspondence from England</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">Henry Norris Russell</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Taming a Turbulent Torrent</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Unique Concrete Withstand Forms for Preventing Disastrous Erosion St. Francis Dam Break Flood</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">E. T. Scott</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Byrd's Proposed Antarctic Route</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p></p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd"></p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Naval Adequacy--I</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Naval Bases Constitute a Primary Element of Naval Strength. The United States Has But a Few, Many of Which Are Woefully Inadequate</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">N. H. Goss</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Extinct Animals of California</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Fossil Remains of Creatures Which Lived Thousands of Years Ago Have Been Exhumed in California</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">Charles H. Sternberg</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">When Art Replaces Ugliness</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>A Section of the Slums of Philadelphia Has Been Eliminated, and in Its Place Now Stands an Architecturally Beautiful Art Center</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd"></p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Rocking Again the Cradle of Flight</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Pioneers Celebrate In Hammondsport the Days That Made Aviation History</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd">Milton Wright</p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">In the World's Largest Hotel</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p></p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd"></p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Drafting Aids</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>Tools Designed to Speed the Engineer's Work</p></div><p class="authors-G71Hd"></p></section></article><article class="article-4xs14"><h4 class="articleTitle-e093r">Rendering Visible a Magnetic Field</h4><section><div class="dek-5E7-A"><p>An Account of the Accidental Discovery of a Peculiar Phenomenon Which May Later be Set to Practical Work. 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