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...courses and he can truthfully say that he has never been disappointed. Not only has he never been disappointed, but with hardly an exception has been enthralled not only by the uninterrupted flow of speech which comes from the platform, but even more by the genius with which the kernel of each subject is laid bare without it becoming dessicated or colorless--so much so that the Vagabond even becomes unconscious of uncomfortable new Lecture Room seats, the shape and smoothness of which he deplores...
That manufacturers not allied with General Motors or with Ford are about to merge for protection. Gossip, totally unverified, connects Packard, Dodge, Chrysler, Mack trucks, Fierce-Arrow,, Hudson and Chandler-Cleveland as potential factors of some such coalition. The kernel of fact is that promoters are constantly putting propositions to manufacturers, ideas which usually dissolve to nothing...
...last week wrote to say that he did not think Chemist Horovitz had effected any permanent cures there. "We do not know that it is a remedy that can be reproduced by any reputable scientific laboratory," said Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, thereby laying his tongue on the kernel of the profession's skepticism, for Chemist Horovitz has steadily refused to tell, except in general terms, the formula of his discovery. Chemists have been unable to analyze some of its elements. But if the claims made for it are true, no assertions-even a New York Commissioner...
...Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...
...meantime, Dreiser's publishers blare forth with sensational advertisements; America's foremost living novelist, as they declare him to be, has written "with the artist's loftiest vision" a tremendous book. Somewhere in all this welter, it seems to me, must be a kernel of truth. Perhaps it is in the significant fact that "An American Tragedy" is being far from phenomenally sought by the book-buying public...