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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
...RECORD FLIGHTS-Clarence D. Chamberlin -Dorrance...
...five previously known are: Vitamin A, which stimulates body growth; Vitamin B, which prevents neuritis (beriberi is the characteristic disease when Vitamin B is lacking); Vitamin C, which prevents scurvy (see below); Vitamin D, which prevents rickets; and Vitamin E, which must be present if an animal is to be fertile...
...with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come right through here. . . . There's the biggest bunch from St. Louis you ever...
...Frank D. Boynton of Ithaca, N. Y., president-elect of the N. E. A. department of superintendence: "President Lowell seems to think that the main function of the American high school is to send its pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...