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...Formerly when a man bought a plug of tobacco to chew he got a good-sized piece that enabled him to be generous in sharing it with his fellows. Now, largely due to the tax, the plug commonly used does not contain more than a half a dozen good-sized chews. The buyer . . . seeks privacy when he takes a chew in order to avoid sharing it with others...
...Quebec and Ontario contain most of the Canadian pulp mills...
...junior year before I suffered any nervous breakdown, I wrote a pamphlet not the least bitter in tone and not complaining that athletics had treated me "shabbily." Nor am I bitter today, yet I still firmly and calmly believe that our University athletics contain many an abuse, and provide a rich field for far reaching reform...
...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
Busybodies in neighboring villages soon spread rumors about the firm of Fazekas, Csordas & Co. The rumors crystallized. Letters containing definite particulars of numerous deaths in the village of Nagyrev were sent to local police offices, finally to the district prosecutor of Szolnok. By his orders the body of an unpopular uncle, buried twelve years, was exhumed, assayed, found to contain enough arsenic to kill a team of mules. Other exhumations followed until 22 arsenicated corpses were discovered. Only then did a pair of Hungarian gendarmes, black cock feathers in their bowler hats, march down the main street of Nagyrev...