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...figure, with a heron-like stoop and enormous cranium. He has the simple, eager nature of a child, always ready to converse with voluble intimacy with any casual acquaintance or to fly up in unaccountable excitement over the most trifling pleasure or displeasure. His fairy stories, written rather for grown-ups than for children, have all the imaginative charm of Grimm or Anderson and in addition show the versatility and richness of a more cultured mind...
...free state of Negroes would develop in the Southern U. S. C Dr. Frank C. Shrubsall, President of the Anthropological Section of the As sociation, declared that there has been no deterioration of human physique during the historical period, that, furthermore, man's expectation of life has grown by leaps and bounds. A child of five in ancient Egypt might expect to live to be 35; a child of five in Rome of the Caesars might expect to live to be 29; a child of five in London today may expect to live...
...upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor. In Argentina, the chief drawbacks are labor shortage, insect pests and high freight rates. Extensive areas in Sind and Punjab (India) will require irrigation before cotton can be grown there sucessfully...
This new "Nickel Plate system" which has grown up so rapidly, will extend from the Atlantic seaboard ports of New York, Newport News and Norfolk, to such important inland centers as Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Charleston and Lynchburg...
...comparing the present estimated total of 112,826,000 people with the total of the census of 1920, 105,711,000 -a total increase of 7,115,000 is shown for four years. In other words we have grown 6.73% in four years-a good growth for a young country of 135 years...