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Bleak and barren Jaipur, a Rajput realm on one of India's high plateaus, rejoiced in frenzied thanksgiving last week at what seemed to superstitious Rajputs a miracle...
Cooler than the nearby island of Singapore. Johore is just the realm for a Scottish Sultana. Officially the Sultan is "independent," but accepts a thumping yearly British subsidy and does as he is told. In greatest breadth Johore is only 100 mi., in greatest length 165 mi. Mostly covered with green forests, Johore supports an easy-going population of 337,000 who export rubber, import strong drink, including Scotch...
...Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills of the great nations of Europe, serving as the expert on currency and banking for the Dawes Committee. So sound and fruitful have been his labors that the name of Edwin Walte'r Kemmerer, Ph.D. stands topmost in the realm of fiscal theory and practice. Last week Money Man Kemmerer arose to make a pronouncement upon a currency which few people would ever have thought needed his attention. Yet the U. S. public as well as the Advertising Club (Manhattan), his luncheon host, seemed glad to hear Dr. Kemmerer speak...
...period last year corresponding to the present date, the little college of Alfred, at that time unknown to the realm of sports writers, met the big Blue Team. The result of the mouse struggling with the mountain was inevitable: Yale ran up a score of sixty-six points, and, as if adding insult to injury, she sent in three complete teams to devour what was left of the carcass...
solutely out of the material realm of thought...