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Everywhere editors sought some comment not too banal upon Kipling, his medal, his words...
...Arizona, Professor Byron Cummings of the state university refused to comment on the efficacy of a divining rod (a wishbone-shaped stick with a wooden thimbleful of "certain chemicals" at the fork) by which one of his geologists, one Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been...
From their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
There was comment on "the previousness of Herr Rumpler"-Herr Manager Rumpler of the famed Rumpler Airplane Works, Germany-when he addressed the Society for the Scientific Study of Aircraft Development at Dusseldorf last week. But knowing Herr Rumpler's proven abilities, and chary of trusting even their doubts, people listened respectfully to the marvel he related...
Envy, Jealousy, Resentment. . . . When you read the comment in foreign journals and consider the contrast between our prosperity and the destitution abroad it takes a very blunt imagination not to be disturbed. . . . Every nation hates us. ... In this bitter feeling there is the making of a conflict that would not only hurl us down from our high place but, in destroying us, destroy civilization. . . .I am no alarmist.-Bruce Barton, President Barton, Durstine, and Osborne Advertising Agency...