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...that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each day to the practice of this role, some of them, indeed, becoming so adept that no expert can detect them; and they take their places in the world's history as women of quality. But for a great lady to pretend to be a courtesan is at once difficult and absurd. The Baroness Von Popper found...
Colonel Tracy C. Dickson of the Ordnance Department of the U. S. Army told of the development of a 280,000-volt X-ray apparatus to take pictures through three inches of steel. The use of the apparatus is to detect flaws in castings, thus preventing gun explosions...
...week, "who thinks that he has the slightest chance of making the squad. I should even like to see men come out for the team who think they haven't any chance, because after all I may see possibilities in a man which he himself is not able to detect...
...field seeds which it finds not adaptable to this country. The object of this bill is to exclude in effect large quantities of Italian clover seed. From experiment the Department of Agriculture believes that this seed is inferior for planting in the U. S. Dying would enable farmers to detect it. ¶The Ketcham Bill to authorize the Department of Agriculture to report market conditions on farm products, acreages, yields, conditions. This bill has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. ¶The Copper-French Truth-in-Fabric Bill, requiring the branding of woolen goods to show...
...jungle in whose twilight incredible beasts wage their truceless wars and come down by night to drink from the river-pools under the swinging constellations of the Cross- constellations that see, here and there, man's fugitive campfires, how dwarfed in that illimitable waste! Reading, one can almost detect an odor, acrid, animal, exciting -the smell of Africa...