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...matter of fact, so enthusiastically has the idea been adopted throughout the land, that already, before the Bicentennial Celebration has gotten under way, 15,720,624 "Washington" trees have been registered with The American Tree Association, and a special marker is being offered by nurserymen to distinguish these from "ordinary" trees...
...miners, that the Associated Press, last week, answered complaints of bias on the part of its local representative thus: "Mr. Evans is ... not a staff correspondent of The Associated Press and The Associated Press is not responsible for his personal conduct." No contemptible liar, TIME erred in failing to distinguish between the group of assailants, including Herndon Evans, who rode Waldo Frank out of Kentucky and brutally attacked him and Lawyer Allen Taub, and those members of the group who actually did the manhandling. Allen Taub and another member of the writers' group have testified before a Senate committee...
...running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...
Born the fourth son of Irish nobility, Arthur was sent to Eton, where he failed to distinguish himself even on the playing-fields. But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast. In the Peninsular War he made his reputation, showed that French troops were not invincible. Gradually, methodically he drove Napoleon's armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner...
...rents bring in distributed? These two questions concern the undergraduate most because they are close to him but there are many others to which he deserves an answer. The report, for instance, mentions nothing of the cost of all the building which was completed last year; it does not distinguish between administration expenses and the money spent for research, two widely different items. Moreover, a different set of figures was given last year, making comparison impossible...