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Good as goldmines are the warm oases of chill, bleak, mountainous Jehol, the buffer province between "China Proper" and "Manchuria Proper." Spouting hot springs make the oases ideal for growing opium. Opium has made vastly rich the Governor of Jehol, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week Tang's strapping big North Chinese soldiers on their small, shaggy Mongolian ponies, jogged down precipitous mountain passes to pot shot at the mighty clanking War Machine of Imperial Japan as it debouched from the railway...
Industry balked at the chill fact that industry was over-expanded. Humanity's material desires, industry argued, are susceptible of indefinite expansion. Hence, production may be indefinitely expanded. High pressure salesmanship (for which Hemingway has popularized an eloquent word), distorted advertising, and installment-plan buying were industry's biggest bricks in its primrose path to expansion. Good intentions...
Through a chill twilight President Hoover was driven from a suburban station into the heart of town. Large crowds, respectful but not enthusiastic, lined the pavements. They clapped some, cheered a little...
This is the weather which the Vagabond, like Mr. Hardy and his cookoo, prefers. For the autumn rain has been upon us, and left the chill of autumn in the air. Summer is alive in his mind but the Vagabond turns a speculative eye on the orchards where the russet apples are growing ripe. Over the moors by the sea the gulls are still crying, but the sandpiper is gone from the shore. The sea-weed sways among the brown rocks, and the sun goes down in purple...
Typhus fever usually manifests itself by a sudden chill and a rise of body temperature to 104° or 105° F. Temperature remains at that exhausting height for 13 or 14 days. Until the ninth day the victim usually is nauseated, has wracking headache. About the ninth day the headache fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th...