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Associated Press. After a celebration, people dislike to be told that they were celebrating an error. Newspapers that use the Associated Press service were temporarily jubilant last week because they published the following "scoop": "Paris, July 1.-(By A.P.)-Commander Richard Byrd's transatlantic monoplane America landed at Issy Les Moulineaux, near Paris, early this morning...
...inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
...bondage. From the first day, the shades of the prison house on 14 Plympton Street infold him, and for the remainder of his candidacy, he is seen no more by his roommates, save in the early morning hours, when he crashes out to record his midnight inspirations in the scoop book, and late at night when he staggers back with dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall, to Soldiers Field...
...John Lucas, correspondent for the New York World, cabled a "scoop" last week from the town of Ventimiglia. Pounding furiously at his typewriter he wrote...
...Heifer Jessie's first stomach that the Pennsylvania State scientists believe they will find Vitamin B manufactured. Each day they will scoop a trifle of predigested vitamin-less hay through the cow's little window and feed it to dieted rats. If the rats do not get neuritis, Jessie does make Vitamin B. If they do get neuritis, then the experiment will have been usefully foolish. It will have closed one more needless door of scientific research...