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...peak of the tercentenary celebration of the settlement of Boston was marked by the annual meeting of the American Legion. Doubtless the founders, could, they have looked down on their city during that week, would have felt honored. The Legion has not been distinguished for the decorum and sobriety of its conventions, but its excesses in Boston seem to have passed the bounds of previous meetings except that at Kansas City...
...tents, found in their subsequent explorations great spurts of steam issuing from cracks in the craters' icy floors. They put a pot of beans over one of the steam streams, baked them for dinner. Another characteristic of the region which made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava formation. It was piled up in huge distorted lumps with jagged, jutting corners showing that it has been thrown up recently. Aniakchak and Veniaminoff are two craters of the volcanic range stretching for 2,000 mi. from Mt. Spurr in Alaska to the Aleutian Islands...
...curb, Prince & Whitely Trading Corp. dropped from $7.50 to $.50 before rallying. Brokers pointed to the fact that J. A. Sisto & Co. which failed fortnight ago (TIME. Oct. 13) had had an investment trust, that both Sisto financial and Prince & Whitely trading had been formed near the peak of last year's bull market...
...study of species is complicated in this and the succeeding zone, where the highest mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude...
...potboiler the Merriwell series soon got out of hand. At the age of three months its weekly circulation was 75,000. Merriwell was to become what the author hoped-the hero of practically every youngster in the U. S, At the peak of his career Author Patten believes, a half-million schoolboys read him every week (many out of sight of parental eyes). Every week for 18 years Author Patten (under the name of "Burt L. Standish" so that others might carry on after him, or in case of illness) ground out 20,000 words. At first he was paid...