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What is the U. S. to do with its treasury surplus of $300,000,000?, This question, obviously a matter for experts, has now become a morsel for politicians. Congress, either by action or inaction, at its winter session will probably decide the problem. Several schemes loom...
...which so often decorate the newspapers, the fact that this particular affair is directly attributable to the church will certainly cause much comment from the ranks of the unbelievors Always waiting to take advantage of any slip made by their arch-enemy, they will never let such a juicy morsel as this slip through their fingers. Pointing to this as an example of the too often misdirected energies of the church, they will as usual cry with alarm at the very thought of the church holding a large amount of influence in its hands, and will warn all to sever...
...Bordeaux, in a rue Ste. Catherine charcuterie (delicatessen), one Desirée Dumas sliced bologna. Her store cat watched harpy-like, leaped at a falling morsel, seized it, rushed outside, scuttled under the house. Mile. Dumas had sliced off her finger...
...time being, just No. 61.† He knew that it was metallic; that its atomic weight would prove to be between 144.3 and 150.4 (the weights of 60 and 62). But he could not demonstrate its properties, uses, value, having only a trace of it in the half-ounce morsel to which he had reduced his original 400 pounds of rare earth ores in his search. Scientists hailed him, particularly his countrymen. Though laboratories throughout the world are constantly searching for the remaining unknown elements, no other elemental discovery has been made since Hafnium, No. 72, in 1923, at Copenhagen...
...Story. As Tristram Wing passed the vicarage window he was distinctly nauseated. Mrs. Orpin and the two females he could hear buzzing with her were like three fat blow-flies scavenging in the middle of a road. Their morsel was the subject of the Rev. Mr. Orpin's note, which Wing had come to answer. It was his wife, Brenda, upon one of whose actions a skulking poacher had chanced to spy. During the interview, Wing mentioned his nausea and damned the whole gabbling village...