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Clarence W. Barren, purveyor of financial information, head of The Wall Street Journal and other financial papers, published an article in The Boston Herald predicting that Coolidge would sweep the country by ten million votes. His reasons were twain...
From this barren isle, which lies off the north-west coast of Africa and forms a unit of the Canary Isles, Don Miguel was in the habit of sending forth to the outside world violent protests against the cavalier manner in which Primo had treated him and also against the arbitrary rule of him that is called Primo...
Peary's commander, Capt. Bob Bartlett, with the Bear, is now up around Wrangel Island, too, on a voyage of reconnaissance for the U. S. Had not the airplane become so efficient, there would scarcely have been any rivalry between our country and Britain for the barren place...
...present, in which, of course one is most interested. If it be assumed that all others belong in the "ex-street car men" category, and that the few prominent examples are without less conspicuous but able and honest counterparts then perhaps the journalistic world is really as barren as we are asked to believe. Perhaps it holds no opportunities for the man of moderate ability. But this does not seem to be fully demonstrated...
...which should last them for some time. All the accumulated talent of Harvard and much of the purest cream of the professional stage, under the leadership of a recent graduate of Yale, will carry the gospel of the theatre from under the shadow of the Sacred Codfish to the barren hinterland of Maine and New Hampshire...