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...California agriculture is a taut, highly organized, high-speed industry, requiring large numbers of skilled and semiskilled workmen-as well as untrained migrants -workmen to trim, grade and pack its produce, fill its refrigerator cars in no time, get its highly perishable fruit from tree to market without loss. (Apricots must be picked in 14 to 16 hours or the grower stands to lose his year's work.) This month the season for California's migrants begins in earnest. From now through September, maturing crops will pull men over the highways as the sun ripens successively the asparagus...
...letter to the London Times last week an irate female reader urged Europe's small neutral States to act not like sheep but like tiger-hunting dogs, accused sheep of waiting when attacked to be eaten up one by one, praised the dogs for sticking together in a pack and making a "combined rush" at their attacker. The P.M. did not use such picturesque imagery, but he did remark across the ropes to neutrals like Norway and Sweden that they had better adopt a policy that "corresponds to realities," instead of acting as if "it was a matter...
...central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
...double rows of 30 holes each and gameholes at the end. In six-card cribbage, most popular of the game's variations, six cards are dealt to each player, two of which are discarded face down for the crib (which belongs to the dealer). The rest of the pack is cut and a "starter" card turned up. Then the players play out their hands-each in turn laying a card face up on his own side of the table, calling out the number of pips on each card as it is played and adding them to those...
...raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been missing for five years. Later he was put in command of a second search party. Despite scurvy, dying dogs, desertions and a ship frozen in the ice pack, he made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time he was doctor, nurse and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. He finally got his party, invalids and all, to safety with loss of only one man. Kane died in Havana just after his 37th...