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...years later, with $30,000 and an agricultural degree in his pocket, Sam Higginbottom went back to India with modern implements and began farming 275 acres of the poorest land he could find. Discarding the surface-scratching wooden plows which Indians had used for centuries, he cut deep with tractor-drawn, modern plowshares-into amazingly rich soil. His seed sprouted into such grainfields as India had seldom seen...
Against the poorest field of a war-poor indoor track season in Cleveland's K. of C. Mile, Gunder Hägg stepped to the front at the three-quarter mark, lasted just long enough to win by a yard in 4:16.7, waltz time. He had one more chance on the schedule to hit his stride ? at Buffalo this week. His fans wondered if the speedy Swede hadn't just come over for the ride...
...despair that infected all classes, from the Queen Mother Elisabeth (once the wife of World War I's beloved King Albert) and her Regent Son Charles to the poorest peasant on the Flanders plain or the meanest miner in the coal-rich Borinage. The upper and middle classes felt a mounting insecurity before social dislocations. The lower classes felt insecurity in everything-and their resentment found a scapegoat in Premier-Pierot, who had spent the war years as head of the Government in Exile in London...
...near-abstraction in greens, yellows and a touch of purple. A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it." Sniffed the New York Times's assured Edward Alden Jewell: "unqualifiedly the poorest thing by Abraham Rattner that I have ever seen...
Total caries (decayed, missing and filled teeth) is highest in men from the most prosperous communities, lowest in men from the poorest. This ratio is partly caused by the large number of fillings in the mouths of well-heeled citizens...