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Last week Dr. C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells combines with ten others, and so on through a possibility of combinations expressed mathematically as 10 to the 300,000th power...
Undergraduates at Cambridge attended a debate before their famed forensic Union. And from London even the mightiest lent an ear to the harangues of three Cambridge youths anent the conduct of British affairs by the Baldwin Government...
...choleric Spanish Generals, Don Miguel Primo de Riveri y Orbaneja, Marqués of Estella, and Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 86-year-old first Marqués of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. They have differed over the control of Catalonia, and have all but come to blows anent the conduct of the Spanish forces in Morocco. Now at last General de Rivera has triumphed. Last week, as the conqueror of Ajdir, the former capital of Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Oct. 12), he was able to demand that General Weyler be relieved by the Spanish Government of his post...
...Geneva and at Paris diplomats dropped a pregnant word or two anent M. Caillaux's mission. "Set all question of figures and barter aside," said they. "If America expects any sum to be repaid by France over a period of 60 or 70 years, she is deluded. Grey-bearded men, yet unborn will not pay taxes to America in 1980. There was no Italy 60 years ago; will there be a France in 60 more? Sixty-two years ago the dollar was worth only a franc; it may be worth less than that in another...
This was not at all to the liking of C. W. Peterson, manager of the Farmers' Produce Association of North Branch, Minnesota. Mr. Peterson wired the Department of Agriculture, anent the oncoming 1925 potato shortage, to "keep your mouth shut." Afterwards, in calmer mood, Mr. Peterson explained that no insult to the Department was intended, that his frank advice arose from the farmers in his vicinity promptly planting so many potatoes that a 10% increase over 1924 was now imminent...