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...difficult to decide just what to conclude from the startling information that 2300 Harvard students do not eat. Whether this is merely an extreme manifestation of the beloved "indifference," or whether these students have developed a stoic philosophy which nips incipient appetites in the metaphorical bud, is at present impossible to say. The fact remains that every day, this by no means negligible number is unaccounted for in the respectable eating houses of Cambridge...
...botanist knows that if the topmost bud of a tree is blighted, lower buds at once begin to develop to take its place. Many members of the Democratic Party arrived at the opinion that the topmost Presidential bud, William G. McAdoo, had suffered from oil. Thereupon several other buds began to expand on their own merits, and, flushed with hope, to burgeon...
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whose boom for the nomination swelled only a few months ago, seems to have shrunken into little more than a candidate for Pennsylvania delegate-at-large to the Republican Convention. All the formidable rivals of Coolidge seem to have withered in the bud, excepting only Senator Hiram Johnson of California. There are some who see Senator Johnson's boom as already suffering from a drought of public support...
...Surely, the press organization of the United States of America, headed by men of brains, should see that, following the material greatness conquered by the country, evolution must bring about the spiritual predominance equal in power, which is being; killed in the bud by just such foolish, inane and at times immoral sections as the feature service, which should be labeled 'for illiterates only...
...plot to re-establish the monarchy in Bavaria was nipped in the bud by the Munich police. The royalists' plans provided for the detachment of Bavaria from the rest of the Reich and the formation of a South German Federation to include Austria. French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot. Upward of 70 people were arrested...