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...TIME seldom overlooks a bet; but I think you fell down this time to the tune of the above...
...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
...slack is work that even employed miners earn no more than the 29 shillings weekly ($7) which is paid by the State as a "dole" to the unemployed. The wage paid is 8 shillings per day ($1.92), but even men nominally "employed" are seldom given work more than three days a week...
Than President Coolidge the U. S. people have seldom had a better tutor in U. S. geography. His person is the pointer, public prints are the textbook. Last week the President announced that he would spend his holidays on Sapeloe Island, off the coast of Georgia. Researches forthwith exhumed a history stretching continuously from the Mayan age to the U. S. tycoon age of today...
Venezuela is becoming suddenly famed as an oil boom country. Though in 1920 she exported less than half-a-million barrels, she is shipping this year just over 85 millions. Seldom indeed does a country's principal boom 17000% in less than a decade! Still more interesting, if possible, is the fact, that Venezuela's stupendous oil tax revenues all pour into the Treasury of one man, an absolute dictator of 20 years' standing, the stern and venerable President Juan Vicente Gomez...