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...Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition's game catch. Most are foxhounds. Others are foxhound-bloodhound crosses. Two are fox terriers. Value of the hounds against jungle beasts was moot when the expedition left the U. S. last winter. The late Paul Rainey had used a pack successfully in Africa many years ago. But Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt when they went to mid-Asia for Ovis poli found hounds useless on cold desert plateaus. On the other hand David Newell...
...directors felt it would be folly to continue $7 dividends equal to $60,000,000 a year; cut it as an unpleasant surprise to the rate of $4 per share, less than in any year since 1915, when no dividend was paid. Directors hinted their attitude toward the moot question of wage reduction by recommending a cut in salaries...
...patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour's sailing, or whether it may extend onto the high seas is a moot point. Coast Guardsmen felt they were within their rights when they sank the I'm Alone 200 mi. out in the Gulf of Mexico. Canada felt otherwise...
That this condition is unreservedly favorable is a moot question. Even that it is wholly true is open to discussion. If the four years spent at a college are to be considered as a training and preparation for life, it would seem that the more conversant a young man becomes with the different elements of the existence that he will have to lead, the more able he will be to cope with it. There is the added factor that many American universities are either in or near large cities, and urban life has never been conducive to fostering youthful fancies...
...Ames competitions, the drawing up, presentation, and solving of a series of moot cases on various subjects, are renewed every year in the Law School. All first-year students who are interested join some particular law club which is part of the Ames competition. Eight men, some of whom are carried on from year to year, constitute a club, while others are organized if necessary. The competitions culminate in the second year when the clubs that have completed certain requirements are entered in the qualifying round. Eight winners of the qualifying round go into the quarter finals, and of these...