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...economic tempest with which a lesser engineer in the White House could not cope, never until 1932, was the House of the Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...
...Opals are iridescent bits of silica which sometimes permeate fossil débris...
...moral in the last sentence Mr. Bris bane has repeated as often as that child-rearing and travel broaden one. An incessant traveler himself, he happened to recross Kansas last week. Another colyumist, Urban Heywood Broun (reputedly earns more than $50,000 yearly), also crossed Kansas last week-for the first time...
Brown's eleven iron men went out to clip through Colgate's lather. But Colgate's backs were slippery, the Colgate line stood stiff as bris tles, and Colgate, beaten only by the Navy, did what no other team has done to Brown, holding the almost-national champions...
...work of clearing up the débris, caused by the great earthquake. (TIME, Sept. 10, Sept. 17, Sept. 24), is now well under way. All the refugees are under temporary cover, but Tokyo has 530,000 homeless persons for whom to provide more permanent quarters before the Winter...