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...General Johnson is allergic to quinine. When he wanted sick leave from West Point, he used to take a pinch of quinine, puff up like a balloon...
Give a biologist a pinch of slime mold-primitive but living protoplasm-and he will have no difficulty predicating an evolutionary ascent, from that bit of animate substance, which leads to large, complex and reasoning beings like himself. Yet the prime question remains: How did the first bit of life appear on earth...
Pitching in a Pinch...
...dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch his corn. But, under pain of dismissal, not until the world and the photographers have noted madam's attire...
...part time. In Southern California the 13% slump was largely explained by dwindling cinema revenues. Rest of the far West was better off except for the cattle ranching States of Wyoming and Colorado, the mining areas of northern Arizona & New Mexico. Purely agricultural regions so far have felt the pinch very little. In Nebraska and Iowa trade was off a mere 1.8%. Farm prices have fallen somewhat, but with bumper crops to market farm income has held steady. In neighboring Kansas and Missouri trade was off about 8% because depression in Kansas City and St. Louis counterbalanced country buying...