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...next problem was to find cheat) electric power. This, it happened, was easy. Tobacco-man James B. Duke (died last October) was just completing in 1924 the huge waterpower development on the Saguenay River in Canada. His plant cost $40,000,000. It would generate 600,000 horsepower of electricity a year and do it so cheaply that current could be sold for $12 per one horsepower per year. At this rate bauxite could be hauled to the Saguenay, be reduced in electric furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer...
...liberty to fight Eugene Tunney in New York in September? Last week the New York State Athletic Commission restored Dempsey to good standing. Promoter "Tex" Rickard ordered a printer to begin making tickets for the fight (top price $27.50). Patrick Mullins, meeting Fighter Dempsey, called him a liar, a cheat, offered to fight him. A humorous spectator, as he helped to pinion the spindle arms of Manager Mullins, asked loudly that Mr. Mullins be arrested on a charge of attempted suicide. Then the license committee refused Fighter Dempsey a license. Said "Tex" Rickard: "Dempsey and Tunney will fight...
...Princeton. Coach Logg* of Princeton has shuffled the varsity boat this spring, wags have said, "like a man who is trying to cheat himself at solitaire." But last Saturday he made no shifts; it was Coach Stevens of Harvard who had to rearrange his boat when Barton, No. 3, sprained three vertebrae in his neck in a boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood...
...Columbia Teachers' College. He had conducted "a long series of psychiatric tests" upon 245 urchins in a Manhattan public school. When eagle-eyed instructors brooded over the scene to make peeking, cribbing and question-whispering practically impossible, 3% of the children were cunning and daring enough to cheat anyway. When instructors left the room, or dawdled inattentively to give iniquity free rein, the cheaters seized their chance, passed notes, made signs, craned necks, copied from grubby "ponies." 80% of the group joined in. Dr. May did not blame human nature, but the "immoral" examination system. "To some children...
...Andersen's original benefactor, Frederik VI, challenged the aged fabulist to a drinking bout. He accepted, but bribed a royal servitor to fill the silver cup passed to him with water. Some hours later, Frederik, by then in no mood to be trifled with, detected the fraud. '"Cheat! Will you pledge your King in water...