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Scatch a statistician and you find an alarmist. Almost everyone who makes a practise of collecting tables and figures, and argues therefrom, has his own per theory of what will happen to this unfortunate republic in another twenty years if something or other is not done at once, or if it keeps on increasing at its present rate...
...event that no Vice President has been chosen (which might happen, if no Vice Presidential candidate had a majority in the Electoral College, and if the Senate were unable to choose a Vice President) then Congress shall designate by law what officer shall serve as President until the House chooses a President or the Senate chooses a Vice President...
Thought transference is one of the most fascinating fields of psychology, and is a never failing source of the unusual. No one can predict what will happen when the experiment, about to be attempted by the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, of conveying thought from France to Cambridge is carried out. There seems, however, to the ministrated layman, to be one rather important draw back which may stand in the way of a practicable system of mental communication. Granted that the receiver becomes aware of some perfectly splendid thought after he has placed himself in the prescribed attitude, there...
...date on which the first payments for this year were to be due. The reason for the Treasury's request was that returns had not been coming in as rapidly as usual, that it seemed that taxpayers were confused and were waiting to see what would happen before paying...
...Story.* To Selina Peake, girl, aged 19, her father gives the following advice: "The more kinds of people you see, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living...