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...must be noted that in Europe each nation is striving to develop itself as far as possible by increasing its supply of raw materials, with a view to becoming economically self-sufficient. The nations following this policy most vigorously are France and Britain...
...purveyors of Spring garments have had to swallow a bitter pill. Buyers of automobiles and automobile accessories have held back. The consumption of gasoline has been adversely affected. The latest victim of the wintry Spring has been the sugar trade. The producers of sugar have held large amounts of raw sugar in hopes of high prices, while merchants and refiners have held back in expectation of a drop in prices. The cold weather has perceptibly decreased the normal consumption of sugar in the form of cold drinks, ice-cream and similar products. As a result, merchants have not been forced...
...converted into a pulp of bruised and bloody flesh by the slashing head and body blows of Gibbons. It was against the Frenchman's body that Gibbons directed his main attack, and as the final bell sounded, Carp's torso was seen to be a red, raw mass. Georges' face, also, was smeared with blood from a cut over his eye, and his nose and lips had been sadly battered. Carp attempted something like an offensive in the first four rounds, especially in the fourth, when his famed right landed on Gibbons' jaw and rocked...
...great crops of China is silk. There are hundreds of thousands of acres given up to mulberry growing and many million people, men, women and children, are engaged in rearing silkworms and in spinning and weaving silk. The manufacturers in America could use, they tell us, twice as much raw silk as they can now obtain. If, therefore, the silk crop in China can be doubled there is a market already at hand and the wealth of the Chinese farmer can be greatly increased...
...Committee have done everything in their power; the Faculty have lent their support. The Freshman must be regarded as raw material, from which no initiative ought to be expected. And the advisors, even though they feel little responsibility and less interest, have certain duties which they have accepted. To obtain the best results, the spirit of the advisors should be otherwise. But taking it as it exists; there is still the obligation to carry out the task assigned, which it is difficult, in all conscience to resist...