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...American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more than six feet tall, onetime football stalwart at Purdue University, inspired awe in these Indians. Commander Dyott believes that the same bandits who annoyed Mr. Gow-Smith, also annoyed...
...reasons why these institutions, Harvard especially should be the last to take up this question are plain. Colleges do not purchase large quantities of raw material and their finished product is supposed to be mental and spiritual rather than material...
...began the exchange of shots by observing in his set speech that "with very rare exceptions there is no British discrimination against the rest of the world in the export of raw materials, and the much criticized rubber restrictions have no element of discrimination in favor of Great Britain, but were introduced to ensure continuity of supply of a product essential to modern civilization...
...another Chicagoan, seized a rope, demonstrated his own athletic age by skipping it at a rate of 1 2/3 skips per second for two hours, a grand total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there is an open challenge to any old duffer who thinks he can beat...
...Last week, startled, they learned that Student Theodore Kensicki, 17-year-old aspirant to the ministry, was about to "squeal" on them. Eight of the smokers lured Student Kensicki with soft words to a lonely spot. While he kicked, lunged, writhed, they tore off his clothes, scrubbed his skin raw and. bleeding with a wire brush. Into his sorry scratches they then rubbed iodine. They left Student Kensicki screaming with pain, minus five teeth. Soon they left the seminary, suspended by the president's order...