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...that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ by that prosaic firm-a term which Employe Puleston computes as three to six years rather than the implied "lifetime" of 20-30-40 years...
...June number of the Advocate, one may safely say is readable and entertaining even to people such as business editors who are presumed to have essentially prosaic minds. Greater praise than this would lay your reviewer open to the charge of extravagance; less would be a rank injustice to the editors...
Press despatches to the above effect, last week, were exaggerations, but not essentially untrue. The key hyperbole was to describe as "one of the handsomest private yachts in the world" the prosaic German steamer Lutzow. Factually speaking the Lutzow had been chartered by German chemical interests allied with the famed "I. G."-Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindmtrie Aktiengesellschaft-for the purpose of holding a general nitrate pow wow and technical discussion of nitrate problems among the world's best chemical minds...
...TIME remember its army of ardent women readers- workers all, who must have their night's rest in order to be equipped for their allotted portion of prosaic duties in this old workaday world. EFFIE DELL JOHNSON Deaconess Ravenswood Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...