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...bushel. Germany leads the world. The U. S. is fourth with one-third as much. New York leads the U. S. Wisconsin reports good crop with increased acreage planted because of last year's high prices. Cotton. Estimated to be 15,635,000 bales (a bale weighs 480 Ibs.*); was 16,085,905 bales last year; sold currently at less than 20c the Ib. The U. S. leads the world. India is next with two-fifths as much. Texas leads the U. S. Nowhere is there exultation about the crop. The hopper flea has been nibbling at the fruits...
...organized the dread Communist "Cheka," or "Extraordinary Commission," an agency of suppression, destruction and terror, an agency of superb, fiendish efficiency. While the Tsarol police had favored the living death of Siberia for their victims, Dzerzhinsky, merciful perhaps, signed death warrants literally by the bale. "There is no god but the Cheka, and Dzerzhinsky is its pope!" became a black byword in the years...
Success is a bale of straw in front of the ass's head. Mr. Andrus, having achieved success as a straphanger, seeks success as an oracle, and like most oracles his dictum is obscured by his ignorance. There are too many college men, but there will not be as soon as men learn that success is not assured by a college education. Then those men will come who seek here something upon which they can hang any laurel wreaths that may happen to win, something, too, which will make them careless whether they ever win the laurels. When activity, subways...
...trade dollar of 1873 shows Liberty wearing a diadem, seated on a bale of goods...
Last week Dr. Covington ploughed through a bale of papers submitted by his present juniors and seniors. He averaged their marks, found that they had recognized 93 of the 100. Routing out the marks of 1916 he announced that the average student vocabulary was clearly increasing. Today it included 93% of his list as against 86% a decade back. He declared the 1% improvement was due to increased newspaper reading and to the prevalence of hobbies nowadays. Every hobby teaches words. He announced: "These figures are not startling, but they seem indicative of an improvement. We cannot think without tools...