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Because the big businessman often has not the time or inclination to digest his newspapers thoroughly, because he likes to believe in a substratum of "inside" information which the Press does not print, because he is more impressed by gossipy chat than by formal information, the "confidential" Washington letter has become a thriving institution. Last week a select list of 800 bankers, lawyers, manufacturers, editors, etc., etc. were receiving free a new kind of "inside stuff" service which may soon be marketed at $5 a year. It is the brain-child of the enterprising editors of Collier's weekly...
...Sensitiveness outside of the field of the mental operation is a magnificent substratum ... on which to build a developed mind. Have you been engaged in that most important job of research . . . the discovery of what you are best fitted to do? If you fail to plot your course . . . one day you will be wrecked and cast ashore. If your gift lies in the field of sciences, have you learned enough about the fundamentals of mathematics and physics? . . . As one enlarges his capacity to make himself understood ... he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness...
...last lecture of the series, the concept of the cosmoplasma will be developed. It is at once the most mysterious and most fundamental part of the universe, and only recently has come under direct experimental study. In brief, it is the substratum of materials throughout the universe, between planets, stars, and galaxies, that has no obvious systematic organization. Hence it includes such diverse constituents as the high speed shooting stars, interstellar calcium gas, and radiation itself...
Granite forms the unyielding substratum of Aberdeen, famed as the most characteristically Scotch of Scottish cities. The public buildings are all of hard, white granite. And by popular supposition granite has entered into the dour, shrewd, stingy souls of Aberdonians. Therefore Englishmen were hilarious and incredulous, last week, when the super-Scotch stockholders of The Aberdeen Journal voted 2 to i to sell their newsorgan to the lower of two potent bidders. Cried a dissenting and disgruntled stockholder, ''For once Aberdonians have been done...
Briefly stated, the most important conjecture is that early in the history of the juvenile earth there was a single continent composed essentially of a granite crust floating on a glassy basaltic substratum. This unique continent was domed and furrowed in response to strains due chiefly to contraction of the cooling earth and to decrease in rotational velocity because of tidal retardation. "At the close of the Paleozoic Era, the east-west geosyncline of the northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system...