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...streams. To support his interpretation of the Water Power Act, he declared that if the law were read so as to permit no escape from Federal valuation of hydroelectric property, it would be impossible "to avoid serious questions regarding the constitutionality of this act." Thus he dealt a distinct blow to those who favor Government regulation, and even operation, of power companies...
...beet estate near Magdeburg, Dr. Browne saw one of Germany's most famed dowsers at work. Covering his chest with a padded leather jacket, the dowser took in his hands a looped steel divining rod, began to pace the ground. Suddenly the loop shot upward, hit him a hard blow on the chest. Continuing, he charted the outlines of the underground stream. Then using an aluminum rod, which he said was much more sensitive, he estimated the depth of the stream. A rod of still another metal indicated by a chest blow that the water was good for drinking. When...
...realize the effect which this news from the New York fashion-setters will have on the ancient and honorable game. Of course, long jeans will take the socks out of the sport and cover a multitude of shins as the pleasure-bent man tees off. But the hardest blow of all will be long pants going down the fairway...
Down in New Haven the Ear of Young America harkens with Harkness back to an older Old World tradition. Three Reading Periods (stand and bow) are sufficient at least to blow the foam off a jugged brew. Three Reading Periods (roar from the pit) provide plenteous days to sink back into the Mediaeval and quaint Villonesque depravity. Against this melodrama. Harvard offers One Reading Period (now over) and the cheery blue dome of Lowell House reassuring the faithful that God's in his heaven and speaking to His Chosen The Vagabond endorses... and hibernates in the pure driven snow that...
...little Paraguay the blow was staggering. She has exported her "tea" (yerba mate) almost exclusively to Argentina. Other nations do not like it. Last year a campaign to launch Paraguay tea in New York as "a new drink with a.new kick" petered out. The brew is not alcoholic. Aghast last week, Paraguayan statesmen realized that whereas Paraguay has been accustomed to drink two-thirds of her tea she may now have to drink...