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...total enrollment. of the 86 specimen institutions was 253,630 full time students. In 1926 it was 265,564-an increase of 138 students per college...
...Fred Love found a single organism, an inch long, with a saw tooth, on his farm in Kankakee County, Ill., the price of July corn on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped a cent a bushel last week. The hand of Farmer Love quivered as he wrapped the specimen, despatched it to the Department of Agriculture in Washington. In that tiny package was a noxious pest, the European corn borer...
...those days the game was called "bandy", from the crook in the stick they used for striking "the cat". The stick, or "bandy", as it was called, was made of willow, and a good specimen was much prized by the owner...
...years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they did or neglected to do was the cause of their destitution.' (Tunney will...
...opening day of the auction saw mostly tapestries put up, "knocked down"-though some of these were so impressively rare as to require more respectful handling than that. A Beauvais specimen went to $130,000 before its seekers got discouraged. A Gobelin brought $95,000. This day's sales totaled...