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Hail is a by-product of thunderstorms only. Thunderstorms are tornadoes with horizontal instead of vertical axes. Hail is caused by the up currents of the storm carrying moisture particles to an altitude where they will freeze. As they drop back toward earth the fountainhead of the wind will carry them upward again, add more snow and ice to their structure. Their size is limited only by the power of the wind to carry them upward on successive trips...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...
...However, the announcement that the United States Naval Academy has recently become the first college of importance in the country to make the modern business man's relaxation a compulsory part of its curriculum substantiates the fact that great initiatory movements might have their inception in the most unexpected fountainhead. The penetrating of a new frontier by the "middies" is at one and the same time a challenge and a reproach to the rest of the collegiate athletic world which evidently has been far too backward...
Coal. The A. F. of L. week began with an interview at the fountainhead of executive intervention, the White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
...India is the very cradle of civilization," he declared. "It is the fountainhead of much that is most precious among all peoples. Mathematics was invented there; poetry, literature, sculpture, painting, and philosophy have there been brought to their highest peaks...