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...general expense of proper ventilation. Careful experimentation, for instance, is now being made on the behavior of rats and mice when exposed to unusual conditions, such as being placed on a sloping surface. Inheritance in animals is another subject of experiment now. A pure breed of rats has been bred generation after generation by mating brother with sister; but for the most accurate results, animals must be kept in good health and subjected to uniform temperature and diet, which requires constant care and attention. Instruments which will allow for the variation of living organisms when under observation are absolutely essential...
...majority of our republicans, accustomed to journalism as debauched by the Hearst dailies, find the British newspaper a very dreary does indeed. Advertisements burgeon on the front page; there is everywhere a dignified and matter of fact taciturnity, a kind of well bred reluctance to arrest the attention which verges on the point d'honneur. Of recent years Lord Harmsworth, Mr. Pearson, and the intolerable Bottomley have made a hearty and sincere attempt to remedy this; they have told a great number of lies, often on important things, they have raved and stamped their feet and babbled in the true...
Clint Morgan was a "woods colt" -"what you-uns call a bastard, only our way of sayin' it is more decent. More natural-like, too; kind of wild an' bred in the hills an' the devil be damned, somethin' that-a-way." Clint's girl was Tillie Starbuck; he was aiming to marry her and everybody knew it and kept out of his way, till Ed Prather came along. When Clint found Prather sneaking off from the fish-fry to talk to Tillie, the trouble started. Prather got away that time, but Clint went...
...point; implicit in Author Burt's novels is the conviction that talk is important. A satire on U. S. cultural vices, Entertaining the Islanders is also an earnest plea-which Burt-readers have heard before but will willingly hear again-for a more refined, intelligent, cultured, splendid, "gently bred...
...Author's local color is her native tint. Her maternal great-grandfather went to southern Georgia as a ''New Light'' preacher, her grandfather built with his own hands the isolated little country church where all her family are buried. Georgia-born (1903) and bred, Authoress Miller got her schooling at Waycross High School, where she took more than an academic interest in English and in her English teacher (W. D. Miller), whom she married two months after graduation. Now she lives in Baxley, Ga., where her husband teaches school. She finds time to write while...