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...Canadian paper mills, the largest of which, the Kapuskasing, burns 500 tons of coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns without smoke, is clean to handle. Mined in the U. S. in North and South Dakota and Texas, it is useful in domestic furnaces, or as pulverized fuel in manufacturing plants...
...Lignite is wood-coal, a brown mineral composition midway between peat and bituminous coal. It is used in Germany principally in connection with the generation of electricity...
Minister Smiddy's large Irish audience must have recalled the vile, unlighted, peat-huts in which some of them were born. Into these, electric light! The old Ireland passes...
...pound class F. R. Sullivan '27 of the University beat R. R. Peat-field '28 of M. I. T. and in the 125-pound class Walter Kwok, the M. I. T. captain won from Aaron Gordon '27. Kwok's onslaught was so terrific in the first minutes that it took Gorden two rounde to recover his poise, but, realizing that his opponent did not out-class him as much as he had appeared to, he fought an even third round...
...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...