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MEET THE WIFE?Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here...
...This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the government govern and the people be free...
...village near Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account of a certain section of Indian life-something of which even the cleverest of Occidental writers have been able to describe no more than the externals. " An intricate and age-old pattern of life, from sudden sunrise through fervid noon to the heavy fall of night and silence...
...Bulgarians, however, were not so pleased about Karagach passing into Turkish hands; nor do they relish the growing power of Turkey (their age-old enemy) in Europe...
...announced that Sir Richard Haget, well known experimenter, has devised an artificial throat capable of uttering with close perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel...