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...persistent Reader-Writer Knowlton look into Webster's, the Shorter Oxford English or Bouvier's Law dictionaries and he will find that there is no distinction in the spelling of barratry, the purchase or sale of ecclesiastic preferment, or of offices of state, and barratry, the offense of exciting lawsuits...
Born in Coshocton, Ohio, in 1873, he followed his British father into the coal mines at 18, soon spied a shorter road to success in the new United Mine Workers. By the Century's turn he was a sub-district president, later Ohio district president, by 1912 Union secretary-treasurer. Meantime he had served two terms in the Ohio Senate, where, as Democratic floor leader, he gained a reputation as a labor liberal. Up to the time John L. Lewis helped boost him into the A. F. of L. presidency, the most conspicuous ability he had demonstrated...
...factor. Males manufacture two kinds of spermatozoa, one bearing a y-chromosome, the other an x-chromosome. If a y-chromosome spermatozoon happens to penetrate the female ovum, the get is a boy; if an x-chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect of sex control in human reproduction-provided the parents will submit to artificial insemination...
Search for a shorter, climatically more favorable route went on. Long pondered by explorers like Ross, Franklin and Amundsen were the possibilities of Bellot Strait, named in 1852 after its discoverer Joseph Rene Bellot, French naval lieutenant. This lies at the extreme northerly point of North America's mainland, 2,000 miles directly above Minneapolis, and separates Boothia Peninsula from Somerset Island. (Barrow Strait, 150 miles further north, separates Somerset Island from Cornwallis Island.) Bellot Strait, situated on the 72nd parallel 400 miles inside the Arctic Circle, is also just 150 miles north of the North Magnetic Pole...
Last week this new, shorter Northwest Passage's navigability was dramatically demonstrated as Hudson Bay Company's Eastern Arctic Patrol Nascopie sounded her way through Bellot Strait. Snow shrouded the Arctic dusk as head on through the haze came the bow of another ship. Nascopie's Captain Thomas Smellie's incredulous hail got a booming reply from veteran Arctic Trader Patsy Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages...