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...following extract is taken from the diary of Sir James Owen of Exeter, England, publisher of the Devonshire Express and Echo, who with Lady Owen toured the United States and Canada last year. The extract is reprinted from the columns of the Boston Evening Transcript...
...Senator's vast sheep interests in Wyoming." I feel sure that the designation was conferred on the venerable Senator from Wyoming by Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, on June 8, 1909, during the historic debate on Schedule K (the wool tariff) in the Senate, from which this extract is taken...
...cheap receiving set squeal by moving his hand about the unprotected parts and thus altering the electrical tension of the whole set, just so Professor Theremin altered the electro tension of the electro-magnet fields within his box. The precision with which he built his contrivance permitted him to extract, not amateur squeals, but harmonious musical sounds. (Gestures with his left hand about the horizontal ring were the equivalent of turning the amplifying knob of a receiving...
When a person has something to say, the bespectacled scribe can generally be relied upon to extract the important features of the matter. Perhaps it is his glasses, or his ingratiating air, or his professed fondness for aesthetics, which gives him the faculty of getting statements on vital issues where others have failed lamentably. With a minimum of apparent effort, he covers as much ground as any of his fellow football recorders...
...smile understandingly at his well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority for this condition is Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, who lately cautioned his faculty members to guard against such insidious influence, prevalent in most co-educational...