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...acres for exploration. In May 1920, when the dance was maddest, people suddenly began to talk of Europe's next sugar-beet crop. By December the crop was a reality-nearly 50% larger than the year before. Cuba's boom was over; private fortunes went down the spout with the island's banking system; the dream of large-scale oil production faded and concessions remained virtually unexplored...
...World War, when it was frequently a case of operate or see the patient die anyway. It is more successful nowadays, but the patient must have absolute rest until the stitches are absorbed and the tissue heals. Until then, any exertion may burst the seam, loosing a fatal spout of blood from the heart. Therefore Joe's nurse, wanting to leave the room for a moment, warned him not to move while she was gone. That was two days after Christmas...
...Duplicating Yellowstone's famous landmark, University Hall's own geyser shot skyward at precisely 11 o'clock yesterday morning. A fire alarm bell rang, and, from a hitherto unnoticed well, a huge brown spout of water rose until it showered a squirrel 37 feet distant...
...with a rubber spout (undentable, non-clogging...
Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...