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James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...
...British business circles the Soviet rejection of a highly "correct" arbitral award (one in the normal tradition of British jurisprudence and made with the concurrence of a Privy Councilor of His Majesty the King) produced a most lugubrious effect. Cabled one fiscal correspondent, "This outcome is regarded in the financial district as a complete demonstration of the impossibility of working concessions in Soviet territory...
...watcher Webb is correct, the U. S. Department of Agriculture in error...
...years ophthalmologists have been placing glass shields on eyeballs to brace bulging corneas though not to correct vision. In 1889 Dr. A. Mueller of Kiel, Germany, succeeded in grinding a pair of shields to the curves needed to correct his own nearsightedness. Lack of money made him drop further experiments...
Last September Dr. Leopold Heine of Kiel reported to the International Ophthalmological Congress at Amsterdam that for three years he had been prescribing contact glasses to correct sight defects. His report stimulated the New York demonstration last week...