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...settlement of the anthracite strike was apparently confirmed. The President sent the Governor a message of congratulation on the conclusion of the strike. Governor Pinchot did not publish the message. It was presumed by the ever-suspicious press that Governor Pinchot had wished to claim the settlement as his sole achievement, but that the President's message inferentially suggested coöperation in the result...
Granting that a golf course, a swimming pool and especially a new gymnasium are as much if not more to be desired than a ring for the sole use of the R. O. T. C., it nevertheless seems evident that a plan which will include two or more of these needs would be the most satisfactory...
...nothing a year." He passed the examinations for the Observatory and at 16 was the author of the first of his numerous works, a treatise on the Cosmos. His remarkable career is best explained by a sentence from his own memoirs: "To learn, to learn without end, for the sole pleasure of knowing, has always been the dominant passion of my spirit...
...story of the waters at Bagnoles originated many centuries ago. A knight whose sole mundane possession was an old war charger once entered the woods at Bagnoles to die. His horse discovered the pool and was rejuvenated. With the customary antics he led his master to the pool of youth and shortly after man and beast emerged from the wood to seek fame and fortune...
...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas?immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...