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COBRA?Somewhat lurid but vitally done play of sex in the home, which many men may consider a bit personal...
Having been ordered to remove all religious emblems from their buildings by the Moslem authorities, the directors of French and Italian schools removed everything but the cross, which, in the circumstances, was the one bit of advertising likely to give offense; for this, they were immediately closed, and protest was made by their respective governments. The National Assembly was undoubtedly quite within its rights in refusing to allow foreign schools of a different faith to make converts of its citizens; but with such summary action, it is almost inevitable that the gain in internal religious morale will be more than...
Harvard caught a bit of the big league atmosphere yesterday afternoon at Fen way Park and played like champions, winning the rubber game from Princeton 5 to 3 in ten torrid innings. With the exception of a flurry in the seventh inning when Princeton bunched four of her seven hits and scored all three of her runs, Spalding had the Tigers eating out of his hand. He pitched a game worthy of a big league setting...
...bill, the unfortunate reactions which most persons anticipated at the time have been developing precisely as foreseen. Tokio news dispatches report numerous and violent mob demonstrations, and foreign correspondents tell of various petty discourtesies indicative of a feeling of bitter resentment on the part of minor officials. The latest bit of popular protest is the suicide of a active before the gates of the American Embassy...
...bearing, legal tender, industrial notes on property already acquired) the whole of the world's wealth could be acquired for about 20% of its value without cheating anybody. What have we finally? A great world-wide producing corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world...