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...Lafayette, Freshmen are permitted to smoke only corn-cob pipes. Should an upperclassman call "Hit it up!" Freshmen in the vicinity must run with their small red caps in their mouths, and their hands stretched over their heads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON FRESHMEN BACK IN THE OLD RUT | 4/4/1924 | See Source »

...might sensibly suggest that a discussion of the matter be relegated to Oxford, "the home of lost causes. And his proposal would undoubtedly find a host of supporters when it became generally known that a book could be suppressed under this bill for "a description of a man eating corn beef and cabbage with his fingers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE BRASS CHECK" | 3/20/1924 | See Source »

...That Boss Murphy's influence with a Standard Oil subsidiary?the Corn Products Company?did enable his partner?(Hartog) to buy glucose from that concern by an evasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Swat the Publisher | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...That Boss Murphy's influence with the Standard Oil subsidiary?the Corn Products Co.?was sufficient to stop the sale of glucose to Hartog when Hartog balked at demands for another 'financial arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Swat the Publisher | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Generating cycles" are cycles which originate in non-economic causes, such as weather. "Derived cycles" are the fluctuations in prices and prosperity which follow them. The farms supply 81.2% of all raw materials used in manufactures. Six major crops-corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, potatoes (70.8% of all farm products)-show the 8-year cycle. So do coal and iron (13.4% of raw materials are mined), lagging slightly behind the generating cycle of crop production. Maximum and minimum rainfall definitely occurs in a periodicity of eight years, both in Europe and America. All these concurrent cycles have been observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venus, Panic-Monger | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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