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...triple switchboard which is connected with 800 telephones in the various offices around the college. All calls within this system are free, and several thousand are made a day. All outside calls cost $.05 apiece, and of these there are approximately 1000 daily. The Central switchboard is connected by trunk lines to the new Biological Building, the H. A. A. and the business School and it is necessary to employ four operators to take care of this system...
...Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this was to the Fourth City can be outlined briefly: It reduced Detroit-New York passenger fare more than under that in effect over the next-best air routeing. It has carried some 1,900 eastbound passengers out of Detroit in less than a year...
...from the breasts of twenty-four women, who knelt naked before him . . . only mothers of recently born children. . . . Dr. O'Malley, surgeon to King Thebaw [was] always required to resuscitate and revive the ones making this sacrifice. The White Elephant walked sedately behind the women and put his trunk over their shoulders. Most of them collapsed after the ordeal, for the White Elephant was very exacting. Beside Dr. O'Malley walked a servant bearing a tray with numerous hypodermics of strychnine, nitroglycerine and other heart stimulants, and the doctor needed them all. When the British captured Burma they...
...Mais ils sont fantastique!" cried Consul Bourguin and purchased a bunch of spotted yellow bananas. A bull elephant swayed forward automatically, shot out his crinkled trunk and delicately stuffed a handful of bananas into his little pink mouth. Suddenly two little red eyes focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul...
...Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk were the Israel Symphony, the Psalms, the Trois Poemes Juifs, Schelomo, music which the French had called too German, the Germans too French...