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Otter Creek put Rutland, Vt., yards under water. One woman died of fright. Relatives of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement were marooned in their hilltop mansion. Railway trackbeds were so deranged they may not function again until next spring...
...correspondent in Jackson, Mich., who had collected false facts at the wrong* Mrs. Weed's funeral and had wired them on as truth; mourned also for a telegraph editor who had sent the story to a busy copy desk without verification; mourned too for a night managing editor whose function it is (no matter what the shortcomings of his underlings) to edit and put out a perfect paper...
...Mayor" Holmes strolled away and made a speech himself. "I'm Mayor of Indianapolis, but I do not propose to function or interfere in any way with Mayor Negley till 10 o'clock tomorrow. Then I'll say to him: 'Come on over and sit down, Claude...
...cornerstone for the proposed 15,000,000-franc International House of Chemistry, which French scientists promise will function as purely as the Pasteur Institute, but which U. S. chemical manufacturers fear will centralize continental opposition to the U.S. chemical industry. Also opposed to the institution is the American Chemical Society, whose Secretary, Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, last month wrote to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg: "The American Chemical Society is very strongly opposed to the creation of any international centre for the control of chemistry, whether it be located in France or elsewhere." The Department of State...
...Guards Back" suddenly failed to function, and Harvard won by 10 to 0, and was off on another string of wins. A defense against the "Guards Back" was devised by W. H. Lewis '95, which smeared every attempt...