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...grave as he broke ground for a new group of U. S. Public Health Service re-search buildings near Washington fortnight ago. No one in the nation knew better than he the necessity of hurrying the construction and use of the establishment. For in his Washington office lay a heap of data, accumulated by inquiring...
...colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with all German colonies in 1914 amounted to only 1% of Germany's total trade. Today such facts of economic history are flung by Germans on the scrap heap. In Hamburg last week an especially vehement colony-demanding speech was made by General Göring. Roared he: "Germany is entitled to colonies-the same as other nations-and we shall not rest until our just claims are fulfilled...
...November muskrats set out to do something about their annual housing shortage. In the summer they burrow into the banks of streams or ponds but during the northern winter the underwater entrances freeze up and the muskrats must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round...
...history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...
Northwestern won last year's Big Ten title mostly by hard running. Last week Michigan, which once won Big Ten titles with embarrassing regularity, stopped Northwestern's runners but was unable to keep Don Heap from passing to Cleo Diehl for one touchdown. Score...