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...school days Mr. Sharp was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines. The leisurely life in Bermuda appears to have given him a chance to revert to his boyhood hobby. He has already lodged the manuscript of another mystery, The Murder of the Honest Broker, with his publisher...
...discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert, roaring and thundering, to its old course...
Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...
...equal to its rental value would be imposed on all land not immediately occupied by its owner. Such a levy would deprive absentee landlords of their rent. Land would tend to revert to the State which would parcel it out among workers and farmers...
...cuts saving $118,000,000 loosed a storm of Democratic abuse against President Hoover. South Carolina's Byrnes charged that the President had agreed to go along with the Economy Committee on the pay cut plan but at the last minute his "pride of opinion" caused him to revert to his furlough scheme and to succeed in inducing the Senate to reverse itself and adopt his less economical proposal. 'The bill has been wrecked," cried Senator Byrnes, "and it has been wrecked by the President...