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...great philosopher and psychologist, sent through her a message to the world written in heliotrope-colored ink was enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must have made anyone nose a rat. Evidently the scientists did, for by measuring and weighing the cards they soon brought her trickery to light...
...century ago. Patricia O'Day comes to Manhattan from Ireland. En voyage she is forced to discard female finery and gear herself out in the clothing of a boy. The rest of her adventures transpire amid the rarefied air of high society and the heavier atmosphere of the lowest stratum during the days when the city structures had not begun to scrape...
Sixty Cents An Hour. Ever since the recoil of a certain obese comedian from the comedy centers of California a gentleman named Walter Hiers has been striving for the heavyweight custard pie championship. Sixty Cents An Hour is his latest. For that strange stratum of the commonwealth which derives amusement from watching a ton lump of humanity at his wooing the venture is doubtless entertaining...
...Committee's report has suggested how the college can raise the calibre of its students: but it does not involve a change in the aim of their study. There is an alternative. Instead of setting the college apart by a cross-stratum, taking off the upper layer of scholars, a division might be made vertically. America needs now more than ever, a place for the pure liberal arts, the education that does not prepare for any calling in life except living. For the men who choose that education, who are willing to give the rest of the world a four...
...present more serious decline of the Mexican fields arises in a similar manner. While not all oil-bearing strata contain salt water, the majority of them do; and where the strata (or "sands") are in the nature of limestone instead of being a true sand or sandstone stratum, the decline is very much greater than otherwise...