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...Leeds, England, 100 years ago, that Joseph Aspdin discovered that a new building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
...height of the applause, comes a trivial issue and Parliament, which withstood the acid test of the Russian treaty, is dissolved by a drop of water. MacDonald modestly bows, acknowledges defeat, and hastens to blame the general election upon the Liberals; for all parties know that an election at the present time is distasteful to the people...
...Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course of 26 miles and 285 yards. The contestants were examined a day or two before and then immediately after the race. The most striking feature revealed by the examinations, in addition to the increase in non-protein nitrogen and uric acid in the blood, was the marked fall in the amount of sugar. This resembled nothing so much as what occurs when an overdose of insulin is given to lower the sugar in a diabetic. In the same way the appearance of the athletes after the race, with muscular twitching, extreme pallor...
...sincerity of this amnesty will be the acid test of the new Ministry. On the other hand the Royalists are suspected of ulterior motives, as the famed General Metaxas, former Royailst general in the ill-fated Asia Minor campaigns against Mustafa Kemal, and leader of last autumn's Royalist coup d'état, is now at liberty to reenter Greek politics...
...gods is required by many universities for graduation, no knowledge of the Christian God is demanded. Animal philosophy has even spread to the modern dance. It has become nothing but a hugging match. The old dancing of fifty years ago compares to modern dancing as milk does to hypochloric acid...