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...kind of a man to make a spectacular fight for the nomination. From the standpoint of President Coolidge, the appointment of Mr. Lowden would remove a possible rival. But this fact is publicly known and such an appointment would bear the stigma of a political move. In White House councils this fact may militate against Mr. Lowden's other qualifications?tact, moderation and no mean amount of classical scholarship, a thing not unvalued by the English. If Mr. Lowden has the choice, will he prefer a home in the American Embassy at No. 4, Grosvenor Gardens, London, or a chance...
...French Government declined to make any move toward opening negotiations with the Germans until passive resistance stops throughout the Rhineland and until payments in kind from Germany " have resumed their regular movement." Meanwhile, the whole of Europe is hung in a state of alarmed suspense...
...cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest is the bacillus influenzae (0.8x0.3 microns), although the filterable viruses are believed to consist of ultramicroscopic organisms very much smaller. The most active bacteria move about .0012 of an inch a second. In proportion to size, this would mean a speed of more than a mile a minute...
...such payment!. Ten dollars to move a bed and bureau from Russell to Randolph! Twelve dollars to move a desk, a bed, a bureau and a table from one room in Randolph to another! The work in either case could not have taken two men more than one hour. The students who refuse to pay such prices-- and there have been a few such defiant spirits--are almost excusable, if not justified, but their position is at best very doubtful. Even those who made contracts calling for a definite advance payment find the price demand entirely cut of proportion...
...shoulder?the great Bushyager murder trial and its subsequent lynching-bee and Fremont's facing of the mob that came to call him to account for his protection of Bent Bushyager? his second marriage and the beginning of his fame as a newspaper- paragrapher?his final happiness. Vivid characters move across the spacious stage of the story: Fremont's great-hearted mother with her pipe and her commonsense; Raws Upright; Captain Ashe and his three pretty daughters; Paul Holbrook, the local "dude' and amateur politician. There is a certain largeness of incident and method like that of the prairies themselves...