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...London had appeared news dispatches from Editor William J. Makin, of the Jamaica Standard, formerly editor of Pearson's Weekly. Wrote Editor Makin: "Starvation and abject poverty stalk this land. . . ." To heated Laborites' inquiries about Jamaica's "horrible conditions" in Britain's House of Commons young Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary for the Colonies, answered: "I am not satisfied with the position in Jamaica and the West Indies generally...
...into the South, and Confederate generals became presidents of railroad and steel companies, two movements opposed to industrialism also got under way. One was the type represented by General Robert Toombs, tousle-haired, unreconstructed, uncompromising old Confederate who refused to take the oath of allegiance and who used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when the war ended, who began as a champion of the poor...
Previously held in disdain with its record of a single win, Princeton may assume the role of Giant Killer by toppling the circuit leaders from the Ivy League Bean Stalk...
...produced by special chemical substances, root-forming and flower-forming, elaborated in plant tissue. The foundations of the science were laid about 1910 by Fitting of Germany, and by Boysen Jensen of Denmark. The latter cut off the tip of the leafsheaves in young oats. This stopped the stalk from bending toward light. When Boysen Jensen glued the tip back on, the stalk started bending again, although only the tip was exposed to light. This indicated that some light-sensitive something was dribbling down into the stalk from the tip across the wound gap. The fact that a special substance...
...made from a moose's foot. Any one of these or most of the other amateur or professional toxophilites in the running for last week's championship could have given any aboriginal American archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot his 468 arrows, Russ Hoogerhyde was champion again, 2,865 to 2,599 for Ed Pikula of Cleveland...