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...overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers them all an anthropology and lets it go at that...
...their third year but usually it is the fourth to sixth before the crop is satisfactory and the tenth before they are in full bearing. Taken care of, the life of a tree should be about 50 years. The flowering season is in April. In November the first frosts knock the nuts to the ground where they are allowed to dry for about a month before they are milled. After the oil is extracted the cake can be used for insecticide and fertilizer...
...golfers have learned that the British Amateur golf championship takes a lot of luck. The elimination match rounds are only 18 holes, giving any unknown with one good round in his system a chance to knock over a celebrity. Only three U. S. golfers have ever won it: Walter Travis in 1904; Jess Sweetser in 1926, reeling with fever in a final against a player who did not know how to use a brassie; and Robert Tyre Jones II in 1930, beating down luck with mechanical golf...
...With 63 votes* toward the magic number of 770 needed to nominate at the Chicago convention, Governor Roosevelt turned to Georgia's primary this week. Fortnight ago he had knocked out Alfred Emanuel Smith in New Hampshire. Last week he knocked out Governor Murray in North Dakota. This week he confidently expected to knock out Speaker John Nance Garner (for whom a Judge Gus Hill Howard was running by proxy) in Georgia, his "second home," and add 28 more delegates to his growing string...
...knock out the sales tax, it was part of the coalition's strategy to substitute heavier levies elsewhere in the bill. The bill already raised the normal tax on net incomes (after deduction) of $8,000 or more from the present 5% to 6%. The House voted (121-to-81) to boost this levy to 7%. Where the bill upped the maximum surtax from 20% to 40% on over $100,000, the House voted (153-to-87) to invoke again the Wartime scale of surtaxes, boosting the rate beyond the $100,000 mark to a maximum levy...