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Last week the drilling had descended 3,500 ft., passing through strata of granite gneiss, a substance never known to have yielded oil in commercial quantities. A pipe-line had been constructed from the orifice to a neighboring cranberry bog to store the precious fluid when and if it gushed. But not a smitch of oil appeared...
Only slight, however, was the Presidential disappointment. For in Her Majesty's stead he saw a flawless, exquisitely cut diamond, sparkling with a transparent, sky-blue light, hitherto unknown in precious stones. Weighing 136 carats, it is the largest cut diamond in the world, and its name is "Queen of Holland...
...people marry? Not-so the Rev. Paul Dresser of Bath, Maine, aroused the National Council of Swedenborgian Ministers, meeting at Cincinnati, last week, by telling them-not solely for the procreation of children. "Marriage itself, in its purity, is the precious jewel of the Christian religion, and is heaven on earth." Mr. Dresser went on to quote Mrs. Margaret Sanger on the race of morons which is threatening our civilization. Said he: ''God only knows, how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children are born every year, of whom it could truthfully be said...
There they were - crowns of gold and precious stones, sceptres of fabulous value, orbs of dazzling beauty, whatnots of immense worth. In all, the collection was said to be worth...
...correct in his assertion that there is too little thought in the American college of today, but the blame for that deficiency should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the undergraduate himself. There is time for thought, plenty of it, but the student dawdles and fritters away the precious hours in idleness, or pumps his head full of extra-curriculum affairs. Even Harvard, self-styled college of the thinker, is an intellectual trifler...