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...District Attorneys should be promptly dismissed and that the President had replied that five were already out. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah a letter. Senator Borah replied. What the letters said was closely guarded, though it was Secretary George Akerson at the White House who revealed the exchange. Best guess as to their contents: President Hoover asked Senator Borah if he had not violated the rule against disclosing conversations with the President. Senator Borah replied with a discussion of the ethics of anonymous publicity...
...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...
...half quarts of air. Quiet inhalation adds a pint. Ordinary people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
...before his body was found; he had been killed by a blow on the head, and shot afterwards. The finding of the murderer is a comparatively simple matter after it is proved who was murdered. Five detectives, professional and amateur, work at the unraveling: though some smart readers may guess the answer, it will be a seasoned crime-story fan who can guess which of these dark horses finally comes in ahead...
...precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week Secretary Meadowcroft was exasperated by reports that he had predicted 16? per lb.: the present low price of real rubber, as the price of golden-rod rubber.† Neither Inventor Edison nor anyone in his organization could guess yet at manufacturing costs or how many acres of goldenrod would produce a ton of rubber...