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...Maintenance Department, because of its huge scope necessarily furnished the largest report but the Biology Department, not to be outdone, when the more essential guardians of the appearance of the University demanded 18,000 tons of soft coal to add a weighty $90,000 to their budget, retaliated with an order for three Praying Mantel Ootheca, which the International Dictionary says is "an egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks and of some im insects, as the cockroach," to swell their total by $3. Oddly enough, the Purchasing Agent was forced to buy one gallon of Cidol disinfectant...
Although the order for soft coal came to 18,000 tons, the hard coal was limited to 6,000 tons, which cost $80,000, but this reduction was taken advantage of by the Marine Research Laboratory, when it proceeded to file a report for 10 dozen Squalers, large plain, at a cost of $110. In one of the folders, which were revealed when the cabinets were opened, was the record for one skeleton of a bullfrog in a glass case at $15, while, at the same time, the Medical School sent in its inventory containing an item...
...evening sun has just rolled down a shoulder of the mountain leaving a great blue heron hanging alone in the sky. He surveys with evident satisfaction the long line of foothills that stretch away like ramparts across the horizon. A carpet of soft green swings down the valley and lies along the plains beyond. In the pasture across the road a solitary hedgehog is pottering about some forgotten business before he sets out on the long waddle home. And in the air there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook...
...crowd that watched the opening matches of 1932 Davis Cup play at Washington last week was not really very much concerned about who would win. Everyone knew that the U. S. players-Ellsworth Vines, John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Frank Shields-were too strong for soft-stroking Marcel Rainville and old Dr. Jack Wright, Canada's two best singles players. The real question was: had Vines reached anything like the form that won him the U. S. championship last year...
...onetime South Dakota well-digger, last week organized a sub-committee of five. Besides himself, Senator Norbeck appointed Republicans Couzens and Townsend, Democrats Fletcher and Glass. Conspicuously omitted was President Hoover's good friend Senator Walcott of Connecticut, who started the bear hunt. Washington thought he had tried to soft-pedal the inquiry after trapping more Republicans than Democrats in bear's clothing. Four special investigators and an accounting firm were to be hired. Representative La Guardia's explosive testimony was the subcommittee's first move to broaden the hunt to include all stockmarket denizens, all equally vicious...