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...Plaster- The desperate sugar industry with 2,105,000 long tons overproduction asked Mellon Institute to find new uses for sugar. Result: Gerald Judy Cox and John Metschl resurrected and perfected an ancient masonic formula for strengthening mortar with syrup. To every 100 Ib. of quicklime in a lime-sand mortar mix they add 6 Ib. sugar. The sugared mortar is 60% stronger than ordinary mortar. Sugar last week sold at 4½? per Ib. wholesale. The two sugar investigators also perfected commercial methods of making citric and oxalic acids from cane sugar. They have also made sucrose octa-acetate...
...sand that ends the west...
...Saint-Beuve. He wrote the loviest of romantic poems, and the most delightful parodies of romantic poems. He produced a series of plays which, with appropriate subservience to tradition, were recognized as masterpieces, after his death. He ran off to Venice with a lady older than himself, named George Sand, who eventually wearied of the inevitable struggle between two geniuses who happen also to be lovers, and eloped with an Italian doctor...
...Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains...
...about the Maine Football game: "University team practically outplayed in discreditable game." The authors comment, "The astounded college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Well! . . HM! . . Well! Well! . . . So the dead have arisen! "His clubs were "like fabled grains of sand; but the Political Club, the Social Service society, and the Memorial society are carefully added to swell the list...