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Eight weeks is the normal length of the competition, but men of outstanding ability are often admitted after a shorter period has elapsed. Members of the Editorial Board make every effort in the early weeks of the competition to weed out those candidates who lack any particular promise, so that the time wasted by both the editors and the neophytes is kept at a minimum...
First tobacco Duke to betray an interest in higher education was old Washington ("Wash") Duke who in 1891 gave $100,000 in cigaret stocks to little Trinity College in Durham, N. C., when that Methodist institution was crusading against the weed he sold. Since then "Wash" Duke's progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only...
Governor James V. Allred of Texas, himself a pollinosis victim, proclaimed a statewide "Hay Fever Day." At the Texas Centennial in Dallas, scores of damp-eyed snifflers assembled in an air-conditioned room, sang a plaintive song about rag-weed,* laid plans for permanent organization...
Last week Professor Wilfred William Robbins of University of California's College of Agriculture announced that weeds cost the U. S. $3,000,000,000 a year. With weed waste included, the annual U. S. wastage appears to be equal to nearly one half of the national income, which was $53,000,000,000 last year...
...wing and weed be indiscriminately rust...