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These are, in Eastern Europe, staggeringly large sums. About $25,000,000 has been the customary size of a loan to one of these little states by a great power, when it has been desired to sew up an alliance or break one off. Turkey recently considered herself lucky to get a loan of $30,000,000-her price for switching from the German to the British side. In the House of Commons this week, the Opposition, which had been crying "Shame!" at the Prime Minister and stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck...
...girl of the month. Girl of the Month for October: Alma Sheppard, 12, of Hanover, Pa., who drove her father's trotter to three world's harness racing records. Boy of the Month: Edward Higgins, 11, of Pueblo, Colo. Born without arms, Edward Higgins can sew on buttons with his toes, in a competition against normal boys won a national award in penmanship...
...until the last five minutes did Queens step out with two more goals to sew up their victory. The play was fast and furious, with the Crimson at times slightly bewildered by the International rules. Both goalies were outstanding, being the hardest worked...
This next step will make the boy and girl for a time virtual Siamese twins. Dr. Moran will cut the upper end of the tube of skin free from John's armpit and sew the end into the flesh of Clara's scarred abdomen. For five weeks the children will lie bandaged immovably together while John's blood nourishes the tube of flesh from one end until gradually-if the operation is successful-Clara's blood joins in nourishing it from the other. This it will presumably do without difficulty because John and Clara have...
...only thing she can cook worth a darn is slaw with bacon grease on it, and they tell me that's fairly simple. Her kind of car driving makes Tulsa mothers keep their children in, and pedestrians slink up back alleys. She can't sew very well...