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...basic substance of chewing gum, obtained from the bully tree and the sapodilla...
Insects Caught in Gum...
...This amber is the fossilized resin of great pine trees which grew in northern Europe during the early Tertiary period. Naturally, insects just as at present were entangled and covered by the gum, large numbers of them being contained in it when it became fossilized. It is remarkable how excellently these insects are preserved in the amber. Some, of course, are disfigured from one cause or another but many are quite natural in appearance and can be fairly easily studied in the relatively clear material...
...histrionic path with indecorously decorative chocolate almonds. And though the oddity of the occasion impressed the audience as it depressed the chorus, it cannot sanely be considered a precedent for future generations. Nor can the novel method of resisting religious discipline adopted yesterday in the same college when gum erred from its primrose path to the ever moving bridgework and settled into the locks of the chapel doors...
Your tennis reports on the French-American matches in New York and Cannes, in your issue of March 1, are not worthy of your publication. They smack distinctly of the very "yellow-journalism" of which you accuse Hearst and the "gum-chewers' sheetlets." Some of your readers may appreciate your efforts at irony in these reports, but American as well as French tennis players will resent your discourteous and wholly unfair reference to our French guests and competitors...