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Cork. The U. S. imports virtually all its cork, though the cork oak thrives in California, where it grows about twice as fast as it does around the Mediterranean. What has deterred Californians from boosting cork is the fact that the bark is not stripped from the cork oak for commercial purposes until the tree is 35 years old. San Francisco's Emory R. Smith said last week that, when he was faculty head of Stanford University's Agricultural Research School, he tried to persuade Founder Leland Stanford to plant 1,000 acres of his grant to cork...
...with some spinster neighbors who tore up a copy of one of his books, sent the pieces in a parcel to Moore, marked "Too filthy to keep in the house." Every night thereafter Moore would rattle his stick on their railing to make their dogs bark. He also stoned the spinsters' cat, because he said it was after a blackbird that sang in his garden. Both sides appealed to the S. P. C. A. Then Moore set a trap for the cat. He caught the bird. (Moore told this story himself; Yeats doubts its complete integrity...
Build me a home; I am hungry For the bark of a dog in a lane, For the sight of a light in a window at night And the song of a roof in the rain...
Because each Freshman was subjected to a barrage of questions, he naturally felt that obstacles were being put in his path, and that some malevolent hierarchy of officials wished to prevent him from majoring in the field of his first choice. The Committee's bark was worse than its bite, however, since everyone in good standing was admitted to his chosen field...
...very many of its people, for example its railway workers of whom it has plenty, but it does coddle its topflight scientists, with whom it is not overburdened. Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they proved last week...