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Half 'round the world, in huge Brazil (a land larger than the continental U. S.) another challenge to British rubberdom was being prepared, last week, by bustling agents of Henry Ford. He, grown tired of paying British rubber prices, has purchased an immense tract of land near Belem, northern Brazil, which is now being laid out as a rubber plantation...
...periodically concerned himself with what this world might be were it not what it is. In recent years Herbert George Wells has held the monopoly in fatiloquent speculation; here is another's prediction, and logical enough, geologically, anthropologically. But Deluge announces itself not as a prophetic tract on social philosophy, but as romance, thus defying comparison with The Republic of Plato, or More's Utopia, or even Gulliver's Travels. The author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion...
...last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas-does not empty its own secretions, not only is food absorption distorted...
...course with another party, and operate it on a fifty-fifty basis, in order to have someone who could keep the course up during the winter and summer months, when the University would have little use of it. The other is to have someone make a gift of a tract of land large enough to construct a course on; then the University could probably build...
Next he handed them the tract entitled Sunlit Days. It read...