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...over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas' famed museum of early Cuban relics fell. Members of the ABC revolutionary society, police and soldiers went out potting for the storm-spawn of looters, killed five in Havana, making the hurricane's total score more than 80 dead. By destroying enormous crops of sugar cane, blowing down sugar warehouses, it slightly alleviated Cuba's glutted Sugar situation...
...arms, food, money. More ammunition was smuggled to them from Mexico by small schooners slipping into the bays of the southern coast. From band to band went couriers, reporting arms shipments and the Government's moves. Now leaderless, the bands "await the arrival of a supreme leader." Inevitable spawn of Machado's Terror, they knew that if they tried to live quietly in their homes, they might soon be jailed or dead. To stamp them out President Machado last week sent to Santa Clara his favorite strong-arm man, notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz...
Into the mouth of the Columbia River last week swarmed hundreds of thousands of plump fish. The salmon were running, fighting rapids, flashing over falls, bucking fishways around dams, bound more than 500 mi. inland to spawn and die. And last week for the first time in years no man hindered them. Boats cruised slowly on the river to see that no nets were laid. The Columbia River fisherfolk were on strike...
Comparatively sprightly spawn of this leviathan of lexicons is The Shorter Oxford Dictionary. In two fat volumes, together weighing 14½ lb., it lists some 250,000 words, "covers not only the history of the general English vocabulary from the days of King Alfred down to the present time, but includes also a large number of obsolete, archaic, provincial, and foreign words and phrases, and a multitude of terms of art and science." Begun in 1902, it is more up-to-date than its parent, less unwieldy, and has all the parental authority behind...
...grunion come out on the beaches to spawn. . . . After the female fish has been washed up with a high wave she buries her tail in sand that is light and all but dry. In this position she lays her eggs. The male lies arched beside her ready to fertilize the eggs. It is when the females are struggling to extricate themselves from their half-buried positions that they seem to 'stand on their tails and dance to the rhythm of the surf...