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...Chop" is pidgin-English for "quick." The Chinese call these implements kwaitsze, literally "the quick ones." The etiquette governing their use is elaborate. To lay them crossed upon the bowl is a sign that one wishes to leave the table. During a period of mourning chopsticks are usually put away, and the mourners eat with their fingers...
Pasadena was flooded with sunshine. Businessmen swelled with pride, policemen with importance. Through the streets it was raining roses-white ones, red ones, pink ones, yellow ones, in bunches and basketfuls, automobiles full, motor trucks full. To the gay Rose Bowl went Pasadena, 300 gorgeous floats and a hilarious walking multitude, for the 37th annual Tournament of Roses on New Year...
...Harvard Square last evening at about five o'clock when they were suddenly left in complete darkness. Confusion reigned everywhere, and the candle supply in the Square was bought up even more quickly than the supply of slickers on the day of the "mud battle" in the Yale Bowl...
...Erie, Pa., high-school children (watched by a chemistry instructor) set out to investigate. Filling a bowl with equal parts of whisky and water, they placed therein a red perch. It lived four seconds. A bullfrog lasted 13 seconds, a bass one minute, a sunfish four minutes. Then a tadpole was dropped into the bowl. It lived...
Major Moore said that the University had planned to buy some land adjoining the bowl end of the stadium, but that this was only for additional athletle fields, which were not yet needed. Briefly, the mammoth amphitheater is only a gigantic fabrication...