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...last week an Italian cabinetmaker named Rafael Bendandi, whose avocation is seismology, announced that the morrow would bring a violent earthquake to the Euro-Asiatic border, that America would feel repercussions. Next day U. S. seismographs recorded a great shock somewhere in Asia. California quivered with minor shocks...
...Think of the thoroughness with which English is taught in the Euro paisisches Gymnasium!" acclaimed Dr. Paistisches Gymnasium!" acclaimed Dr. a CRIMSON reporter on the relative merits of English taught in Germany, and German in America. "There, for nine years, the German youth is instructed, and five hours each week during the entire time is devoted to the intensive study of English, which is the most difficult of all tongues. The aim of such thoroughness is to penetrate deeply into the very essence of English and American sprit and civilization, and to acquire a complete mastering of the language. Rather...
...register of many a Euro pean hotel a column is still provided for "Remarks." Therein occasional goaded Britons will note, "No jam, muffins poor." But in general the jottings are of a honeyed tone: "The water here is as pure as in Akron"; "Perfect service, splendid view"; "I had a real hot bath...
...afternoon, U. S. Steel revealed a fine quarterly statement, declared an extra dividend of ¼. Next morning, by curious coincidence ? if it was a coincidence ? the redoubtable Jesse L. Livermore announced, apropos of nothing in particular, that he had turned bullish, that with agricultural recovery and a Euro pean settlement near at hand profits lay on the buying side, and that next year should be prosperous without becoming a boom. Stock prices soared. Can rose 5? that day, Baldwin 5½, Studebaker 5?, Steel 5?, with lesser advances throughout the list, even among the rails. Sales on the Stock...
Laying down his cigar Mr. Lloyd George arose. Standing with his pince-nez poised in his left hand and describing himself as a " plain Euro-pean," the ex-Premier said he was a very old journalist-once he was associated with The Trumpet of Freedom, which had a circulation of 500 a week, " except on fair-days, when it reached 1,000." He went on to give thanks for his splendid welcome, stating that " no Britisher talks of Americans as foreigners " and that " the real founder of the British Empire as we know it was George Washington." He then outlined...