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...Ambassador to Berlin, and others. Annual prizes of $1,000 in these countries are awarded to authors and journalists who made the most meritorious contribution to the cause of friendship with the U. S. during the year. M. MACMILLAX General Secretary Strassburger Foundation New York City Founded by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, active publicist, socialite, sportsman and Republican of Norristown, Pa., Strassburger Awards have been given since 1929. German Consul Reinhardt lamented last fortnight...
...chicken and raw celery. The basement of Madison Square Garden is never more malodorous, even when populated by show dogs or poultry, than when its catacombs are used as massage rooms and restaurants for cyclists. The odors permeated from the basement to the arena where the riders resided in beaver board shanties beside the track and where, for 22 hours a day, spectators at this curious and hypnotic sports event watched the race between outbursts of band or vocal music amplified into incoherence...
...Measured?" Mrs. G. E. W. Foster, Somerville High School; "Can Marking Standards Be Made Approximately Uniform in an English Staff?" Miss A. H. Spaulding, Brookline High School; "The Problem of the Non-Literary Pupil," Mr. L. C. Zahner, Groton School; "Tests and Examinations in English," Dr. E. R. Smith, Beaver Country Day School; "Departmental Administration of Special Projects," Mr. S. Thurber '01, Newton High School; "The Dangers of Over-Emphasis in Supervision," Dr. C. M. Fuess, Phillips Academy, Andover...
...Arietta Game Preserve in northern New York, a keeper tied a clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...
...Hardtner, just across the Kansas line, lived two farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right...