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Work in the oil fields came to a halt. Derricks and donkey engines were crawling with mice. Reservoirs and pipelines were clogged with drowned bodies. And still the mice came, endlessly advancing, followed by wheeling, crying flocks of birds great and small ?hawks, vultures, owls, magpies, jays, even (according to the Associated Press) wild ducks which, seldom carnivorous (except for fish), must presumably have mistaken the undulating carpet of rodents for a grey lake. Running amuck in the tumbling, whispering, squeaking herds went coyotes and wildcats; even a wolf was seen. But mankind had warred too well upon...
Recreation and social work carried on among the youth of Italy by the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A. and various Methodist organizations are coming rapidly to a halt as the new "Young Fascist" organizations, the Balilla and the Avanguardia, are forcibly superceding them. Youths join the Balilla at 8, the Avanguardia at 14 and, if approved, the Fascist party...
Hemenway Gymnasium attracts more than halt of the college athletes, its average rising from, 424 men daily in December 1920, to 621 men in December 1921 and finally reaching its apex with 725 men daily in January...
...languages, who is now negotiating loans with the Jugoslav Government for Blair & Co. of Manhattan, is something of an imperialist. Last week he paused on a holiday in Vienna to say: "It is only a question of time when we will have to invade Mexico to call a definite halt on its trouble making-propensities. We might as well face the facts-our sentimental hypocrisy is our worst enemy. We are reaping now the results of Wilson's half-hearted policy in Mexico...
...then the French maid tripped by. The cub reporter's French was halt, lame and blind, but he could gesticulate. He detained the maid. He scribbled again...