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...only do the fortunate inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...gold medal last year was awarded to Rene Clarke, art director of Calkins and Holden. The most effective use of display line was found in an advertisement of the Scripps-Howard newspapers "Kill my cow for an editor? I should say not!" Advertising of its new car and the general subject of aviation brought an award to the Ford Motor Company...
...Over the jangling piano of many an old cow-town honkytonk used to hang this notice: "Don't shoot the piano player. He's doing the best...
...Governor of Eastern ("American") Samoa. Most appreciative of all are the inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced that "A firmer policy in administration in Samoa will be adopted...
...tuberculosis and the body cells called monocytes. The bacillus lives parasitically within the monocyte. Each has its individual living chemistry. Together they have a third metabolism which causes the tubercles of tuberculosis to grow. This third chemistry varies with the strain of the bacillus and its animal host (man, cow, fowl, fish). But always typical compounds result-of fats with sugars, albumins with sugars. The fats and albumins in all types uf tuberculosis are very much alike. But the sugars differ greatly. Hence the sugars are suspected of bearing a close relation to the disease and it is the sugars...