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...water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area is still half-lake, half-swamp; one can leave Tallulah only by train, by boat or by swimming. Even in places where the waters have more nearly sub sided, people find a foot of mud and slime in their houses, or sit on their porches and look out upon water-logged fields where nothing will grow. Where cotton has been planted, the farmers are faced with a new menace - a pestilence of worms which cut through the young plants as though with sharp saws. Said C. P. Seab...
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...Geneva, Switzerland, Bacteriologist Henry Spahlinger heard a sudden explosion and felt himself splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...
...DUNES-Harry Kemp-Brentano's ($2). To masculine Poet Harry Hibbard Kemp, neo-Whitmanian, who, bred in Kansas, has gone around the world on 25? and studied "tramping" for years, the sea and its gulls, its tidal slime, fog, dunes and shiny-footed waves, is a source of life in strong, recurrent phases. The first two dozen pieces of this volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful...
...stealing one of them and you have started a fight. Last week the franc plunged suddenly from 40 to the dollar to nearly 50. Frenchmen, clutching crisp or crinkly banknotes, felt their wealth oozing from them as insidiously as though they grasped a handful of slime. What to do? "Naturally"-with blind instinctive no-logic-they hit out. At whom? At Herriot, whose ambitious folly had overturned the Briand Cabinet (TIME, July 26)? Yes. M. Herriot was mobbed, though he escaped. (See "Presidents, Premiers.") But there was only one M. Herriot. At whom else to strike? Obviously...