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...Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" and the modern institution which has played so important a part in the development of northern and western Canada. For a century and a half after the original charter had been granted in 1670 by Charles II the "Adventurers" were content with a monopoly of the fur trade in the regions touching directly on the Bay. The initiative for further exploration and expansion was lacking. At the close of the 18th Century came the conflict with the newly established "Nor' Westers", which led to the famous Red River dispute of Lord Selkirk...
...wasn't the Shubert's, although it happened before they went under. But that's the gag on the road, you know. . . Not content with doing their own business. . .producers have to go out of their way to try and injure someone else's. Why is it like that? I don't know. I was my own manager for ten years in this country. I should know all about...
Anyone can with small effort indeed call to mind some of the greatest scholars and scientists, philosophers and poets, who, far from striving for eminence in their fields, seemed to prefer general notoriety. Some, like Gregor Mendel, were content without either notoriety or eminence...
...annual meeting in New York during the vacation that he had confirmed the belief that the meningitis germ, rather than the white cells in the spinal fluid, consumed sugar present in the fluid. He said that when meningitis is present, there follows a decrease in the sugar content, and when the patient is recovering there is a corresponding, increase...
...noted further that the symptoms of poliomyelitis and meningitis were much the same, but that a normal sugar content in infantile paralysis and a deficiency in sugar in meningitis led to the finding that only the germ of the latter disease consumed the sugar...