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Henry Lamar's traning camp for boxers, in the Indoor Athletic Building, opens today for both the battle-scarred veterans and for the greener of the species. Regular boxing instruction will take place daily 3 to 4 o'clock and 4 to 5 o'clock; and if necessary, 2 to 3 o'clock and 5 to 6 o'clock...
Utopianizing, as every Wellsian knows, is H. G. Wells s crowning glory or besetting sin. In Star-Begotten his Utopian agents are extraterrestrial. The Martians know much more than Earth-dwellers but inhabit a nearly worn-out planet, have got to have greener pastures. Their attempt to Martianize the Earth at long distance is thus not wholly unselfish, but neither is it necessarily sinister. "This is a world where lots of us live upon terms of sentimental indulgence towards cats, dogs, monkeys, horses, cows, and suchlike inhuman creatures, help them in a myriad simple troubles, and attribute the most charming...
Last spring a minor drought was confined to the Dust Bowl of the Southwest, and to Midsouth states where livestock was already on the move northward & southward to greener fields. Last month it swung up along the high edge of the Great Plains to the wheat regions of the Dakotas. By last week, after 32 blistering days without a drop of rain, fields in that area yielded nothing but crisp brown stubble. At Mitchell, S. Dak. 11,000 citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain...
...vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...
...wrote of a dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon the Lorelei in spring. Poets and songsters have been wrong; but the rugged, hard-headed, unsentimental Angle-Saxons in their far-off wisdom had a four letter word...