Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neglecting to use a blanket, rash Rancher Jaerl Nafte and his foreman proceeded to kiboko a black named Sixpence Temba who, they said, had insulted a white woman. Spreadeagling the horrified blackamoor on a wagon wheel, they lashed him until their arms were tired. Later they suspended him by one toe from a tree and went on with the kibokoing though he screamed that they were killing him. When tired again, they left him and went off to a picnic. Sixpence, as he had prophesied, died...
...explanation and description of cancer cells. Those malignant cells, he has found, do not grow faster than normal cells. Nor do they have more growth energy. Nor are they necessarily diseased. They do, however, differ from normal cells in their physiological properties. Chief difference is the fact that they use nitrogen. The nitrogen they get from proteins or protein-split products. And of those the body has an unlimited store. That is why cancer cells can multiply (not grow in size) so rapidly...
...label from a PINK salmon can. Sixty thousand housewives stopped feeding Pink salmon to their cats, sent in 200,000 recipes, bale on bale of labels. By July 1, the season's left-over cans were reduced to 500,000. This year packers have collected $250,000 to use in further educating the public in the mysteries of Pink (as opposed to Red) salmon. U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries O'Malley officially opened the campaign with a lecture on the Pink salmon, obligingly giving special attention to its eatable qualities. He pointed at what all experienced salmon-eaters...
Long Shots. In Washington, D. C., William Fox was given a license to use a special wavelength for recording sound-shots over long distances. A Fox company, taking a singing picture in the Fiji Islands, prepared to send their work to Hollywood by radio...
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