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...conservative element in Nicaragua rebelled against the Liberal president, and forced him out, the United States recognizing the new government because the Liberal dictator had been repeatedly an obstacle to international peace...
...bastard metal" element, brittle, reddish white, mined in the free state in Saxony, Bohemia, Cornwall. Bolivia. Its best known use is as bismuth subnitrate, a therapeutic for dyspepsia and diarrhea. Taken internally with water the white powder slowly forms nitric acid, a powerful antiseptic. Its physical properties make it astringent, good for nausea...
...from several points of view. In practice Harvard does play, or has until the recent Princeton break, four other rivals which are rapidly becoming traditional, Brown, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Princeton. Furthermore in traditional rivalries, the game itself is less rather than more emphasized because of the large social element. Certainly the football game and the crew race with Yale are social events in which the athletic contests themselves are almost minor. It might be pointed out that the schedule next year contains two intersectional games which will hardly decrease the excessive prominence of the games preceding Yale...
Side by side with this attack on the Conservative element, agitation developed last week to expel foreign workers from France and thus " leave more work for Frenchmen. Fulminating upon this point the potent French League of the Rights of Man, a radical organization, issued a manifesto last week...
...Hopkins of Illinois had isolated a new chemical element, No. 61 in Mendeleev's table, and named it Illinium...