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...journalistic trade sheets, advertising rises to truly heroic heights ; mere ink and pulp perform prodigious feats. Boosters, hustlers, live-wires, pushers, thousands of miles apart, loudly shout or quietly whisper, hint, insinuate, brazenly state or solemnly propound their messages across the page...
...under a dark brown dressing-gown. Carp was clad in a light gray robe with black fringes. As the two fighters shook hands, Carp was heard to exclaim in English : "Good luck to you !" The Fight. Carpentier, though managing to remain vertical until the end, was converted into a pulp of bruised and bloody flesh by the slashing head and body blows of Gibbons. It was against the Frenchman's body that Gibbons directed his main attack, and as the final bell sounded, Carp's torso was seen to be a red, raw mass. Georges' face, also...
...days ago someone in Berlin offered an American dollar in a restaurant for a square meal and was presented with three, not only square but pressed down and running over. A Swiss firm, deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency in bulk. Switzerland, of course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought...
...straight line, to make it return through curvilinear space to its original position. Or if this should be beyond the grasp of those who do not comprehend Einstein, the German may be trying to keep the natural resources out of French hands by using their forests for pulp. At any rate when the printing of the mark has come to a period, one may wonder whether, "if seven maids with seven brooms should sweep for seven years," they could ever clean up the mess...
This situation is expected to greatly favor the wider employment of artificial silk for some time, although the synthetic and manufactured product is not in all ways an acceptable substitute for the natural silk. Artificial silk is made mainly of either cotton linters or wood pulp, treated with picric acid; various secret processes give the resulting cellulose the required viscosity and sheen, by forcing it through tiny holes and spinning it?just the process of the silk worm when it spins its cocoon...