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Possibly it amuses Trader Cutten to see the agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such...
...newly published book by Professor E. G. Jeffrey Ph.D. '99 of the Biology Department. The book deals with the structure of coal and is based on experiments carried on, by Professor Jeffery concerning the structure of coal. He has perfected a method by which a selection of coal thin enough to be transparent can be cut so as to make every seopical work possible and has written his new book from the knowledge thus gained...
QUARANTINE-A thin section of runaway farce in which Helen Hayes, the runaway, is responsible for most of the laughter and most of the patronage...
...clock.--Sun will be a very thin crescent. The atmosphere will look stormy. Observers should watch for shadow bands on sides of white buildings and on the snow. The thin crescent of the sun breaks up into glittering points of light, which astronomers have dubbed Baily's beads...
...than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...