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...battle of wheat' cannot be won in only one year. But the possibility of winning it exists. Nobody now doubts that it is possible to increase the average yield per acre. Wheat must be raised wherever possible by intensive methods. Zones giving a high yield per unit of area must be generalized. Some people think it is possible to arrive at 100 quintals [five tons] per hectare [nearly two and a half acres] and I also believe that Italian agriculture can still advance far on the road to perfection...
...problems of Australia, a country with a Pacific civilization but a place in the British Commonwealth, were shown to be of a very difficult and internal nature when one takes into consideration the fact that her civilized area is nothing but a narrow strip encircling an area of waste land comparable in size to the United States...
Nationalist Armies concentrated in the Nanking-Shanghai area and commanded by a military council of five members (TIME, Oct. 3). Onslaught. For variously attributed reasons, the most popular being Bolshevik machinations, Yen joined forces with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking...
...more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total...
...Cornell University is the Wilder collection of preserved brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain...