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...world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt in the world's markets. In time, it is probable that coal and oil resources will be discovered too. The Germans still hold one trump card in African colonization-Bayer 205. This drug, discovered by the same laborious research that produced Salvarsan, is apparently a certain cure for the terrible "sleeping sickness," and as such may make huge areas in Africa habitable. The Germans keep the secret of this drug very well, and intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: African Exploitation | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...night with neighbors, Although the wagging tongues are silenced by a perfectly good explanation of the affair, Alice, becoming jealous of the attention paid by O'Keele to her older sister, persuades the latter to put the worst interpretation on the visit to New York. With this as her trump card, Alice induces Terry to agree to, the announcement of his engagement...

Author: By C. P. M., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/9/1924 | See Source »

There is, on the other hand, at least one bright spot. Hereafter the nervous declarer will no longer be forced to hesitate between a trump and a discard while his agonized dummy, who has seen both the other hands, twitches spasmodically across the table; and their will be considerably less recklessness when one can forecast accurately whether one's opponent is about to down four of a kind, or merely two pairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SUDDEN A THOUGHT--" | 3/29/1924 | See Source »

...have reflected a high standard of journalistic discrimination and common sense, and its editors have displayed a correct conception of a newspaper's function, which is to print news that is really news, and be quick about it. They have not found it necessary, for the most part, to trump up sensations in order to make the CRIMSON look like "a regular fellow" among newspapers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/23/1923 | See Source »

...Trump '09 of the Fuller Engineering Company will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Powdered Fuel" at the meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society, which will be held in Pierce 110 at 7.45 P. M. tonight. After the lecture refreshments will be served. All University students are invited to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. C. Trump to Address Engineers | 1/6/1921 | See Source »

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