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...from the Indians, and selling them in Europe at large profits. Later, when Canada began to be settled, the Company took to selling parts of its enormous land holdings to colonists. In 1871 it surrendered its governmental powers, and continued as a commercial concern purely, still owning a huge tract of land in Canada...
...overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
...line dipped south in favor of Turkey; three times it bulged north in favor of Irak, whose mandatory guardian is Britain. The British received most territory; and the concessions granted to Turkey were regarded as useless. Turkey, however, won a big point; for she established her right over a tract of land that Britain had emphatically labeled "No Man's Land...
...announcement read as follows : "The Belgian colonial authorities are now laying off a large tract of territory in the Kivu district (the gorilla country), and this is to be a sanctuary for gorillas and for all other wild animals. Within these bounds not only the fauna but also the flora will be left undisturbed. Provision has been made for a sufficient number of wardens to prevent the intrusion of hunters and to prevent the destruction of plants or trees. The sanctuary will be a sort of Garden of Eden where the animals may live in peace, amid their natural surroundings...
Twenty years ago, two English physiologists studied the distribution of food along the digestive tract by giving to rabbits large numbers of small glass beads. Then the rabbits were killed at various intervals, and the distribution of the material throughout the stomach and intestines was noted. Recently, Doctors Walter C. Alvarez and B. L. Freedlander, San Francisco, of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research in the University of California Medical School, used a similar method in studying passage of food through the human body. They found that the normal individual with good digestion and a daily excretion does...