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...land because he owns the land, Mr. Astor discovered early the solace of the sea. Reporters cannot infest the oceans. The strain of question and answer to which a public figure is eternally subjected is particularly distasteful to the new commodore. Once, shrewdly said he: "The social gulf between Americans is not so much measured in money as in newspaper headlines...
...would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even at par (19.3?) was a ridiculously small unit which never served any purpose except to complicate bills and infest columns with fractions. ... As for that mathematical microbe the centime ($.0004) it would have been discarded long ago if only someone had been able to reckon up the centuries wasted in counting such a monetary parasite...
Professor Roorbach encountered various dangers in the course of his trip. He told of one experience he had with the bandits who infest the waters of the great silk growing region of the delta near Canton. While the silk-cargo boat on which he was a passenger was rounding a curve in the stream, a group of some 30 bandits, armed to the teeth, was seen on the bank. The silk boat was heavily armed against such a contingency, and cleared decks for action. But the bandits had a large sign displayed which read. "We are today only attacking fishing...
Mummy Germs: Tubercular bacilli found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...
...recent trip in Northern Africa, made in the company of two Arab guides, F. Van Wyck Mason '24 had a number of thrilling encounters with the bands of marauders that infest the region. The following article is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, and tells of one such encounter...