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...pleasant slumber and voraciously torn limb from limb. Though it is difficult to see any material decline in Massachusetts education since the enactment of the Oath Bill last year, nuisance legislation, like a docile canine with fleas, is obviously bothersome. For attempting to drive out this undemocratic pest the leaders of the prospective gathering in Emerson D deserve congratulations...
...Congress the President sent a report of his National Resources Committee with a message urging adoption of its six-year, $5,000,000.000 program of coordinated public works. The Committee specified 10,000 projects-street, highway, irrigation, drainage, flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent...
...warble (a pest...
...pest of spectroscopists is "ghosts" or false spectrum lines which appear because the grating is not absolutely perfect. In the Wood gratings the ghost lines are so reduced in strength that they are easy to identify and ignore...
...This famed tree pest was accidentally introduced into the U. S. by James Lick, founder of the Lick observatory. Astronomer Lick had imported some fruit trees from China. The scale arrived with them, spread to become a great fruit tree menace. †Owned by Pacific Machinery Co., which is 5O%, owned by Food Machinery...