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...Shallow the cut in the earth; deep the cut in Pittsburgh history. For as the silver spade, dirtied, was carried away, one or another of the watchers recalled these names...
Last week the monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...
...same principles. Ridicule is the weapon ... of a poor cause. They may continue to talk about Babbitry and scorn the Rotarian virtues but Rotary International will be known and honored long after Minnesota's much-read but not particularly distinguished expatriate has been found out as the shallow, superficial, overestimated literary cartoonist that...
...true that one or two of the drought-resistant Harvard types are occasionally slightly lower in sucrose than that of the best Cristalina fields, but this is compensated for by a higher yield in tonnage, on the poor, shallow soils, where Cristalina will not grow at all satisfactorily...
...Laboratory on a commercial scale, in combination with tests in field tonnage, showed that Cristalina cane cut from moderately fertile land, rating between 24.146 and 54.1 arrobas (25 pounds each) of cane per caballeria, produced from 290 to 457 bags (325 pounds) of 96 degrees sugar per cab. The shallow uplands and older fields of Cristalina produced from 165 to 257 bags per cab. The decrease in quantity from the shallow uplands was due not so much to an inferior quality of juice as to an inferior growth of the cane plant on the less fertile fields, where the yield...