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...rate, the individual who is not able to attend college or university will find one of the shortest routes to broad education through biographical works. --Daily Texan...
...shortest line between Liverpool and the great wheatfields of the Canadian Northwest passes through Hudson Bay. European ships have slipped in and out of Hudson Bay since the 17th Century. For the past 50 years there has been agitation for a railway and port on the Bay to take out wheat without sending it overland 1,000 miles farther to Montreal. When Canadians began to work seriously on the problem it was discovered that there were only two possible ports on the western side of Hudson Bay: Port Nelson, at the mouth of the tidal Nelson River, and Fort Churchill...
Last fortnight's obituaries of H. P. Re of Coldwater, Mich, said he had "the shortest name in the country." Immediately protests were made by Ed Py of Newcastle, Ind., Fin Ax of Indianapolis, J. Ur of Torrington, Conn., etc., etc. Then newshawks undertook to find out who really had the shortest name in the land. Baltimoreans dug up the name Tau-chun I, onetime Chinese medical student there, but they had forgotten that in China surnames come first. Winner last week seemed to be Aaron A, first name in the Chicago city directory...
...Cabinet was seriously considering abandoning the principle of private capitalism, and substituting for it a system of state capitalism in which the Government would take control of all private industries, banks, shipping, trade, to straighten out the nation's finances. This would be arriving at practical Communism by the shortest cut possible. Moscow jubilated, hailed the beginning of the world revolution...
...Waterloo, N. Y. Barbers James Baldassare and William Menzer raced to see how many heads of hair each could clip in the shortest length of time. Baldassare won by cutting 23 heads...