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...Borgo of San Marino, eldest and smallest republic, a group of sun-bronzed hillmen gathered, resentful. Theirs is a country without public debt, a tiny, remote upland (surrounded by Italy). There unemployment is unknown because every man either tills his ground or, if he has none to till, emigrates. So it has been in San Marino years without end. No progress, no need of progress, no desire to change the round of peaceful toil which began when St. Marinus fled the persecutions of Diocletian (A. D. 284-305), and founded a colony of refugees which has become the Republic...
...days have greatly improved the style and teamwork of the CRIMSON nine, and several members of the team have become quite astonished at their own proficiency. The daily reports from the Princetonian camp indicate that the Nassau newspapermen are rounding into shape fast, under the constant admonition of the unknown coach, "New Jersey expects every man to do his duty...
...time this year. Into the home of an all-English country gentleman, George Marden (Dudley Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith to be irreproachably dead. The prospect of bigamy in the family, even though unintentional, rocks the Mardens to their skeletons...
...seven years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
Diabetes. Dr. Richard I. Wagner of Morristown (N. J.) Psychiatric Institute, extracted from huckleberries "myrtillin," substance of unknown chemical composition. Fed to some diabetic dogs by Dr. Frederick M. Allen of Morristown, "myrtillin" seemed to benefit. It may develop as an alternative to insulin as diabetic treatment...