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...Samuel Hoare, who at no distant time may be British Prime Minister, that Chancellor Hitler took a crack in these words of the Proclamation...
...Graves turned the problem of preserving the vitality of the sperm during shipment over to his crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
...this was necessary can be understood from the titles of some of the papers. Such titles as "Serological and Allergic Reactions with Simple Chemical Compounds," "Sedimentation in Relation to Faulting," or "The Kinematical Structure of a Spatially Uniform Universe" give an idea of the difficulties that some of the crack minds in the newspaper world had to contend with in order to prepare a daily story for popular consumption...
Usually a story of sorts could be put together out of the pounds of press material that were gathered daily and explained by the crack minds on the faculty, but occasionally one of them would come up with the remark, "Gentlemen, I've read this paper, and I can make nothing...
...there was the babassu, bassoba, baguassu, aguassu, uauassu or guaguassu, a palm tree that grows in Brazil. From the outcries of the Dairy Union and National Co-operative Milk Producers Federation, the New York dairyman had learned to deplore the babassu, its hefty nuts, the childlike Brazilians who skilfully crack them with axes, the oil pressed from their kernels which is not only an ideal fuel for Diesel engines but also a cheap base for oleomargarine...