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There have been three major plans afoot for paying permanent tribute to the name and memory of Woodrow Wilson...
Foolish the farmer who, having dug into his pocket to buy a horse, leaves the beast munching in his stable and trudges to town afoot...
...dauntless four and a few followers proceeded afoot between lines of police to the Imperial Hotel, singing, as they went, the forbidden "Internationale." The four took rooms; the police took rooms opposite. A guard was set around the hotel...
...From every point of view, it is lamentable that the Zionist Congress should require special police protection. It is hardly pleasant to attend a meeting patrolled by police, mounted and afoot, and to find one's sole interest personal security, because of the threats of the rowdies and hooligans, stimulated by liquor and fortified by the hope of plunder...
Months passed. It became clear, for all the absurd extravagance of public rumor, that something unusual was afoot. Last week Mr. John Edwin Barnard, Hon. Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, permitted his name to be attached to an announcement: He and his colleagues believed that they had isolated the cancer germ ... A minute disturbance in a ray of light revealed by the most intricate methods of microscopy ever devised... Highly satisfactory experiments upon mice, in whose tissues, inflamed with coal tar, the injected cancer organism produced both sarcoma and carcinoma*. . . Experiments in far too early a stage to warrant...