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...plan thus far so nobly advanced. Boys with a hundred demerits would not be allowed to sing in the Jubilee, or worse still, would not be allowed to bring the girl who wrote that mushy daily letter. Any boys naughty enough to have two hundred demerits in the bug head proctors book would have to stand with a committee of proctors all the time the class picture was being taken and never have, the fun of throwing eggs at the Seniors...
...self-opinionated lot, and as the years slip along into the mounting thirties, they will probably become more so. They know what they want, or think they do, and they're going to get it. They will not be led by the fashion of the moment. The bug of specialization has bit the colleges, and the average undergraduate is too firm in his own mind, or too solicitous for his own welfare to lavish time and ability on a multitude of matters that do not yield him a definite, tangible return. There may be nine-and-sixty ways of constructing...
...wide interest in visual broadcasting has already warranted the publishing of a special magazine, Television, by Hugo Gernsback, famed producer of "bug" magazines...
...manufacturer of microscopes found by a survey that the farmers of the country could be sold small inexpensive microscopes. They could use them in detecting what sort of bug was eating cabbage leaves and what in the soil was deterring the growth of corn, wheat or other crops. In fact, nearly a hundred ways were found for the practical use of the microscope on the farm. Accordingly, this manufacturer's biggest market for microscopes has been developed among the farmers of the country...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...