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...Ilford murder trial and "the queue" was outside the "Old Bailey" in London. In America such a statement would be merely a matter of passing interest and amusement to most mortals, and only for a few reformers and very respectable dailies would "the whole furore" become a "noxious sing of the hysteria of the times...
...Constitution. Right bravely has the more or less permanent advisory or legislative body, as that flippant Webster has it, the city council of Boston, stepped to the defence of its hearth fires and homes by snatching from the nation's youth a plaything far more dangerous than a noxious rattle...
...discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped up, so as to be airtight; and when I succeeded in forcing an entrance; a tremendous puff of noxious gas burst out, asphyxiating me instantly. When I recovered, I found myself in a clump of bushes some distance lower down. Only providence had saved me from falling 563 feet into the river below...
...Department of Economic Entomology is dealing with the problems of structural, agricultural and medical entomology, particularly those which give promise of ultimate applicability to the control or reduction of noxious insects as they affect food production, public health and forestry...
Only 132 out of a total of 513 Freshmen who were given physical examinations this fall were found to be users of tobacco in any form. The ages at which these smokers started using the noxious weed also revealed interesting data. One man puffed a cigarette for the first time when he was but nine, while at the other extreme one man attempted smoking at the age of twenty-five. However of the 105 who answered this query, 86 started the practice between the ages...