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...Blow glass into a hollow sphere, kick it about like a football. Mould glass into a tumbler, heat it to the point where pieces of paper in the tumblers are charred, plunge it into cold water. These are tests which were withstood by recently discovered "unbreakable glass...
...What hurts their pride in the present case is the fact that they have been treated as a nation of relatively slight importance. Their dignity has been bruised; and they feel that Japanese prestige, which has been carefully built up during the past three generations, has suffered a damaging blow...
Firpo vs. Reich. In Buenos Ayres, Luis Firpo knocked out New York Al Reich by a blow to the jaw, in the first round. Twenty-five thousand South Americans cheered their champion's "absolutely last appearance in the ring...
Those two beasts of burden, the Elephant and the Donkey, who began a year since to blow trumpet calls of allegiance to all Republicans and Democrats, were severely criticized for warming up for their race so long before the call to the barrier. Apparently no harm has been done, for although much water has since flowed under the bridges, they but made themselves fit for the great mud battle of March and April in Washington...
...statute books of the state by a vote of 106,996 to 93,349. The law required parents or guardians after Sept. 1, 1926, to send all children over 8 and under 16 to public schools for the entire school year. It was a blow direct at the Catholic parochial private school system...