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...Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains. White men's investigation of the Chaco has been resisted by the savage Indians, ihenni flies, carnivorous piranha fish, anacondas, rattlesnakes, jaguars...
...that of Sister Wernera (born Katherine Weidenhöfer) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Cologne. Years ago the Sisters of Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce was to be mentioned, the nuns used...
Harry S. Broudy 3G, of Milford--the Edwin DoT. Bechtel Prize of $100, open to graduate and undergraduate students in philosophy for an essay on the philosophy of William James, for an essay entitled "The Relation of James's Pluralism to Personal Existence...
Senator Copeland looked hopefully toward the chair where Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney was supposed to sit. The chair was there, but Mr. Jurney's cutaway coat, his polka dot necktie and his big purple handkerchief were not to be seen. On his eminence Senator Pittman called aloud...
Hollis--Billie Burke in "Mrs. Dot...