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...crow-sized bird with set-back legs which make it stand upright like a penguin, the murre breeds in colonies on Arctic cliff ledges. It lays an egg pointed at one end so that it rolls in a circle, does not fall off the ledge. Once hunted for oil as were the extinct great auks, murres have grown scarce, are now protected by treaty between the U. S. and Canada. Only Indians and Eskimos may eat their eggs or kill them for food...
...drowsed through routine legislation. The strident McFadden voice continued: "On my own responsibility as a member of the House of Representatives, I impeach Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors and offer the following resolution. . . ." The House, shocked as if by electricity, sat bolt upright. For 20 seconds there was a stunned silence. Not since 1868 when that other Pennsylvanian, lame Thaddeus Stevens, made charges against Andrew Johnson, had the awful ritual of impeachment been uttered in the House against a U. S. President.* An excited buzzing broke loose as Representative McFadden passed his resolution...
Perfection of a machine which adds Vitamin D to m>lk was announced >by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation last week. The device consists of a large upright cylinder within which glares a12,000-watt battery of carbon arc lamps. The arcs emit ultraviolet light. The light synthesizes Vitamin D in milk exposed to its irradiation as Wisconsin's Professor Harry Steenbock ; has demonstrated. In operation 3,000 quarts of milk flow in a thin sheet down the inner walls of the cylinder, acquiring Vitamin D in about the same strength as occurs naturally in good...
Harvard men, undoubtedly aided by men who never saw the inside of a Harvard classroom, rallied in time to save one remaining upright at the steel-stand end of the field. The fight lasted for nearly as hour, with Harvard victorious in the lumber business if not in the pig skin industry that...
...Germany's monarchist "League of the Upright," meeting in Berlin to urge his recall to the throne. Wilhelm Hohenzollern sent the following words of Jesus Christ: "Without me ye can do nothing...