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Argentine wheat farmers, overdue last week on their spring sowing, could not get a plow into the ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust...
...school in Kent for several years, Authoress Beith has been living with her parents in Derbyshire, writing and discarding novels. Her family knew she liked to read Galsworthy, play lacrosse and tennis, but they never suspected she was a writer; when they read about her prize-winning feat in the newspapers they were struck all of a heap. Determined as well as secretive, Authoress Beith hurt the feelings of Publisher Stokes's press agent by refusing a formal presentation of her prize. Only thing she would say about her writing: that she took it up "to take my mind...
...possibility of a Maxwell-quantum equation. Dr. Einstein could have used it as part of his Unified Field Theory coordinating the laws of electromagnetism, gravity and, light, which he succeeded in expressing mathematically, only to discard the expression when flaws were detected. At first blush Professor Born's feat of cerebral acrobatics seems to hold real promise of help to Dr. Einstein in rebuilding the Unified Field Theory, to which he expects to devote the rest of his life...
...Clarence ("Buster"') Crabbe, who are tall, ingenuous and shaggy at the ears. Crabbe has an advantage over Weissmuller in that he looks even less capable of speech. When he pats Jacqueline Wells on the chest in the last reel and says "That . . . mine. . . ." audiences should find this a feat of intellectual gymnastics even more exciting than his exploits upon vine-trapezes...
...cool out. But not without accolade was Bonny Bonthron. Though he had suffered his first collegiate defeat he, too, had broken the previous world's record by .5 sec. and after an hour's rest his brawny, black-haired legs were strong enough for another feat: he ran the half-mile...