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...insistently needs tin for bronzes, solders, collapsible tubes, pewter, babbitt and other bearing metals, type and brittania metals, tin foil for wrappings, soda fountain and chemical laboratory pipes, cans and boxes, white enamel, making silks heavy, mordants in dyeing textiles and printing calicoes. For these uses, this country last year imported 50% (76,646 long tons, value $95,121,000) of the total world supply of tin. This was an increase of nearly 20% over 1924 imports, whereas the world supply increased only 2% over that of 1924. On Dec. 31, 1925, there were only 2,654 tons...
...amount of its faithfulness to the tenets of that tradition, which were ecstatic adoration of primal beauty, not for the beauty itself, but for the appreciation of the transcendent spirit behind it, the spirit that has been felt by all generations of poets, and which is itself the fountain spring of all poetry...
...announced subject of the lecture was "The Molpe," which Professor Murray and was a very early Greek ritual of song and dance. This molpe he considers the fountain-head of poetry in the European world...
...Sloping, blunt, heavy spectacle-dented. Chin-overfleshed, strong. Cheeks-pads. Hands-puffy, unroughened. Body-well-fed. Legs-thick. Feet-plump. Expression in slumber-babyish. Expression in thought-"gets things done." General expression - extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...
...agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State College, which had sent Mr. Hug forth-co-operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...