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...Tercentenary, President Conant did up a box for 2036, if the Martians haven't sacked the College and burned up Widener's archives in the meantime. The packets inside the box are made of rag silk, so they won't smut and discolor the contents...
...Queen Mary will now go out of service for ten days while "structural alterations" and "mechanical overhaul" are proceeded with, object being to reduce the sweep of smut from her funnels, which has been soiling the clothes of passengers on her afterdecks, and to try to get out of her the 34-knot speed officially claimed before she made her maiden voyage with a maximum speed of less than 31 knots...
...name, is first shown enjoying life in the A. E. F. Home again, his first act is to seduce his buddy's sister. Without waiting for consequences, he makes tracks for his native town, where he is soon in trouble with the police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl...
...Paul quickly recognized young Smuts's ability, made him State Attorney at 28, though he was not legally eligible. Smuts saw that war was imminent, worked like a Dutchman to prevent it. Nevertheless it came. (According to Author Millin, neither side really wanted war which was the work of one man, Sir Alfred-later Lord-Milner, British High Commissioner.) Once it started, the Boers thought their 60,000 burghers had a good chance of winning. They had beaten the British before, at Majuba: they remembered the successful U. S. War of Independence: they expected the Cape Colony to rise...
...every working pithead in the United Kingdom last week smut-faced coal miners voted in favor of a nation-wide strike, 409,351 to 29,215. Yet afterward, with the characteristic attitude of such leaders as Britain's proletariat has been able to find, Secretary Ebenezer Edwards of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, which conducted the poll, commented: "Nobody wants to strike...