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...your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field...
...consequence of this playful dissipation, the attitude of many of the people of Cincinnati today, I gather, toward those Elks is something similar to the position formally taken by Elkdom in convention assembled, toward the Bolsheviki. They would stand as "blocking the path of these invaders" to the freedom of their city in the future...
...while walking in a park and quoting Goethe to a friend that Nikola Tesla "saw" the induction motor that first brought him fame. He was able to draw it with a stick on the sandy path in the exact detail with which he presented it, six years later, to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
...Land of the Living Death." Actually, the Molokai leper colons -made famous through the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and by the successful experiments there with chaulmoogra oil, leprosy specific-occupies only a small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Flyers Smith and Bronte were...
Discussing the Louisiana situation, onetime State Senator T. J. Labbe said: "I believe that every man who was in the path of the flood . . . has lost practically everything he had .... The people are destitute and what they are going to do in the months to come is a question neither I nor any other man can answer .... God only knows what is going to happen...