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The Dole "The stark fact before us is that great numbers still remain unemployed. . . . The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral distintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this...
On the basis of these tests Dr. Rhine has concluded: "The ability to exercise clairvoyant and telepathic perception has been fairly well shown to be a natural capacity of the human species." He finds that, like manual dexterity, this ability increases with practice, is diminished by illness, fatigue, drowsiness, narcotic...
Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe...
A new job, not included in its original program, was laid directly at the feet of the Gueorguieff government by the League of Nations last week. The pleasant fields of Bulgaria blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well...
Legends of a Golden Age or a Garden of Eden are probably dim memories of the lost homeland whence the restless Sumerians drifted into the Euphrates Valley. They knew how to use the wheel and the arch, how to irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in...