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...early weeks of June, before and after. Undergraduates who find that the present warm wave makes no appreciable contribution to the solution of the final examination problem may find some consolation in turning their tired eyes up to Saint Paul. In that storied town of the late "middle border" an increase of temperature merely means an extra dip in the waters of Minnetonka for Harvard graduates of as little as one year's standing who have taken the precaution of joining the local Harvard club...
Last Saturday, Premier Benito Mussolini inflamed one hundred thousand Italians to a bloodthirsty frenzy. "Down with France" was the cry as he exhorted his subjects to "raise their muskets" against those nations on the Italian border. "Today the Italian people are an armed people sure of their destiny" were the words in which he predicted the future of his country. At the same time "All Quiet on the Western Front" was removed from all Italian book stalls by the police on the grounds that it was too pacifistic. In 1910, the Kalser of the German Empire told his army...
...seen repairing tracks on the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, plodding head down through beet sugar fields, tending endless rows of cotton, mucking about the dirtiest jobs in oil fields. In five years the U. S. has counted, on an average, 56,000 Mexicans per year coming across the border, has failed to count many a thousand more who sneaked over informally. Only one such Mexican immigrant out of a thousand becomes a U. S. citizen...
...father was member of a gang of rustlers who ran cattle from Montana to the Mexican border. Young Lee soon found out what it was all about. When his father and mother quarreled, Lee ran away. He joined some Ute Indians, learned all about horses and cattle, became their No. 1 broncobuster. Says Buster Sage: no man should stay too long on a bucker; 20 seconds is plenty. Once he stayed 30, and was sick and dizzy afterwards; when he stayed three minutes, he had to be carried off, bleeding from the nose and mouth...
Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...