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...collection and distribution of moneys paid under the Experts' Plan by Germany on account of reparations. The degree of his power can be gauged by the fact that these moneys, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, are credited to a reparations account in the Reichsbank at Berlin ot which he has the sole drawing power...
...yours truly denies the possession of one. Gaze on the enclosed pictures of the youngsters in the Class in Hotel Management at Cornell University. Dockery is 6 feet 3; the graduates average just a trifle under 6 feet. Although there are only 110 in the class, one is captain ot the soccer football team, one is on the varsity "eight " one on the football team and one is the best lacrosse player in the university. "Paunch" indeed...
After telling your readers how much Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has desired to keep out ot public notice, you proceed to give intimate parts of her history, even telling of the fracturing of "a small bone in her shoulder, rudely tearing aside the curtain that you say she wished drawn about her own private affairs; following her on board the steamer and there showing how clever you are by pointing out the number of her rooms and showing her in bed with "white gardenias on her dresser...
...this is a sample of the accuracy ot the piffle you are accustomed to print regarding THE PRESIDENCY, I would suggest that column be omitted...
Erastothenes, a Greek geometer and astronomer who flourished about two centuries before Christ, is credited with being the first to entertain an accurate idea of the principles on which the determination of the figure ot the earth really depends. It is said that "his results were inaccurate, but his method is the same as that which is followed at the present day." He suggested 250,000 stadia as the earth's circumference...