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Fifty thousand dollars means 600,000 pesetas to Vicente Escudero-a fabulous amount to one who was born in a gypsy wagon, helped his parents peddle laces and thread, clicked out his first dancing steps on manhole tops. In his early days Escudero's tricks were not confined to his dancing. He rarely had money to pay his hotel bills, so he would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow...
...according to the Boston Globe "might possibly be able to cope with Boston Latin School." A half a century of rivalry has seen a complete reversal of conditions, it has beheld the development of football from a sport to a major business, it has bound two institutions with the thread of tradition, of mutual respect...
...stimulated by Professor de Schweinitz at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins, Professor John Martin Wheeler of Columbia, and their compeers. U. S. eye surgeons have developed a marvelously precise technique. Their scalpels are slim. Their scissors resemble manicuring scissors. Needles are feather light, thread gossamer thin...
...conspiracy" to restrain trade or efforts to fix prices.* Even the steel industry has drawn Governmental fire, for allegedly pegging the price of rails at $43 a ton since 1923. Through the twilight zone between legal co-operation and anti-trust law violation, President Lament will have to thread his way. Knowing that he will be supported by President Hoover in his efforts to resuscitate a prime industry, few steelmen doubted his surefootedness...
...caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week's wind blew from northern New York. Linden moths die in four or five days, as did New York's last...