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...conference was held at last, well along in the afternoon. It lasted nearly three hours. The upshot of its was that Ban Johnson was removed from his place on the Advisory Committee of three. Seven of the American League clubs (St. Louis excepted) reinforced this action by a pledge concerning Mr. Johnson...
...Manhattan, grim men from Dartmouth and Cornell grappled at the Polo Grounds. Finding the Cornell line muscular, Dartmouth swept the ends, peppered 31 passes. Cornell stuck to her plugging game. The upshot was 27 to 14. Dartmouth's first success in four years against the dwellers "on the gray rock height...
...that he has done what she told him to, she is outraged at him for doing it. She stands outside his cage and tells him he must be mad, he has disgraced her; then she melts, says it was all her fault, and she loves him anyway. The upshot of it is that she vows she will marry him, come to live in the cage with him. But the authorities, it appears, have already decided that in the contingency of his marrying, he will automatically be freed from his contract. So the doors of his cage are unlocked...
...scientists representing different branches, contributed to a symposium on recent researches in the origin of man. The upshot of it was that man's nearest living relative is the gorilla, though man is not directly descended from him. Dr. Frederick Tilney, the neurologist, comparing cross-sections of the brains of apes and monkeys, showed that the size and complexity of the brain is directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight...
...arrival at Berlin, the ladies took their case to responsible quarters and the upshot of the unpleasant experience was that U. S. Ambassador Houghton called upon Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and brought the matter to his attention. The latter promised to investigate...