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...simpler nitrates and carbonates - forms which plants can utilize again. Without the participation of microbes in this cycle, life upon this planet would inevitably cease. Without them, civilized communities would long ago have been overwhelmed in their own waste products. Spread upon the surface of the earth, these become harmless through microbic activity. These upper layers of the soil are the ancestral home of the bacteria, where they are concentrated most thickly. Germs which break down organic matter in the soil are frequently attached to the roots of legumes (beans, peas, clover), and act as " nitrogen-fixers" for the vegetable...
...cases of impropriety, indecency, immorality. I then wrote a letter to the papers complaining of widespread immorality and at once became the center of a storm of indignant protest. The papers?particularly the Daily Express?inveighed against me for sending ' paid spies' to interfere with ' innocent courtships' and ' harmless wooings.' The papers called attention to the fact that I myself am a celibate...
...growing plants within its reach. The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression. The damage to crops is immense. The Department of Agriculture is organizing control measures of two kinds: rigid quarantine by inspection of crop shipments; importation of five varieties of harmless insects which are the beetle's enemies. This marshaling of one species against another by human direction will be perhaps the main tactical principle in the coming war between insects...
Homeward Bound. Here is an excellent example of harmless diversion. The producer has selected a heavy-weather sea story, relieved it with stray breaks of sunlight in the form of love and comedy, given it over to the able playing of Thomas Meighan and Lila...
...banks contributed to the fund, and when a bank failed the fund was used to pay off all its depositors in full. This plan largely originated with Senator Owen; it has been urged for adoption by banks in other states, too. Bank failures were to be rendered forever harmless to the public...