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...well introduced over his whiskey glass, but out of respect to wonderful little Peru and some of its blooded and true gentlemen (all of whom are proud of their Incan ancestors), you should have let it go as a drinking tale. Never could such a fanciful story help explain the many Latin American revolutions...
...mountain chains, with a deep valley between, and in one place a lofty plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses which might well be the hypothetical continent "Lemuria," proposed by Germany's late Naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel to explain the fact that lemurs, lowest of primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report, accompanied by samples of water and ooze from depths down to five...
...hole in the property jointly owned by Miss Sarah Buzby, 70, and her sister Kate, 81. Next morning the Bell men returned with a telephone pole, made ready to sink it in the hole. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate objected. The Bell men laid down the pole, began to explain. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate sat on the pole. Stymied, the Bell men fetched a second pole, sank it while Miss Sarah & Miss Kate guarded the first. Miss Sarah sawed the second pole through in two hours, apologized to the helplessly watching Bell...
...Lewis Browne- Macmillan ($2.50). An attempt to explain how God came to choose the Jews, by one of them...
...demonstrated in the College Boards. Outstanding performers are submitted to the professor in charge of the course, in whose section the work is conducted in lectures, often with the extraneous demonstration of mathematical phenomena. The rest go into smaller groups under smaller men, who emphasize only the essentials, and explain the work more conscientiously...