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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 27 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Siberia, which is gradually crystallising into a nation about the Japanese army and the little bands of Czecho-Slavs, has already adopted a ...

    Article : 62 words
  4. WOMAN'S VOLUBILITY.

    A woman can talk longer than a man because she uses less force in speaking than the man does. A professor has proved by actual and very ...

    Article : 294 words
  5. RHODESIA.

    The subject of future supplies of metals, particularly base metals, must be considered and developed imperially, by us as well as by our ...

    Article : 290 words
  6. WHY OUR TISSUES DO NOT DISSOLVE.

    More and more attention is ever being paid to that class of substances known as colloids, or, to be more exact, in a colloid (jelly-like) State, ...

    Article : 539 words
  7. THE ENEMIES OF GERMANY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 words
  8. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Colonel (after hearing sergeant's evidence): "Well, Private Jones, what have you got to say?" Jones: "Well, sir, the sergeant has ...

    Article : 250 words
  9. HOSPITAL LINEN FROM OLD PLANS.

    Some time ago (says a writer in the "Globe") an excellent scheme was started for converting the linen stripped from the back of old plans ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. INSECTS AND THE BALLOONS.

    The "Scientific American" quotes Lieutenant Depret-Bixio, of the French army, as saying that many insects follow captive balloons in ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. KAISER AS A PROFITEER.

    The Kaiser's greatest war profits came from the Krupp gun-works at Essen. Just how large his holdings were cannot be determined, as the ...

    Article : 245 words
  12. HIS LITTLE FIND.

    "I am so sorry, Mr. Portly," apologized the hostess to her unexpected but influential guest at dinner, "but I have no cheese in the house. It is ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. "BUCKSHEE."

    To posses something that is 'buckshee' is the delight of a soldier's existence. But before explaining its quaint joys, let me give a definition ...

    Article : 633 words
  14. WASTE IN SMALL THINGS.

    In "Wealth from Waste" Professor Henry Spooner declares that waste goes on in nearly every direction. Apart from big items, look at some ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. "OVER THE EDGE."

    Never in the world's history has the sea held such horrors and unknown dangers; never have there been such countless maritime ...

    Article : 445 words
  16. CEILINGS AS MOVIE SCREENS.

    In the wards of several American hospitals in France, where the wounded men forced to remain in bed owing to the nature of their wounds ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. INSULTING!

    "So you resigned?" "Yes. I couldn't stand the way the firm treated me." "What did they do?" ...

    Article : 26 words
  18. BUMP!

    Astronomers believe that the new star, like all other stars that flare out suddenly and then fade into insignificance, is due to a collision in ...

    Article : 476 words
  19. A RISKY EXPERIMENT.

    As the professor was examining a dark brown substance spread on a paper a friend interrupted him. "I say, old chap," said the man of ...

    Article : 172 words
  20. TIMES HAVE BEEN WORSE.

    Luxury texation is by no means a new idea. In Rome, more than 2,000 years ago, the Oppian law enacted that "no woman should possess more ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. GEMS AND GOLD GALORE.

    Before the war people used to marvel[?] at the wealth of India's Rajas and the magnificence of their Courts. During the war these Rajas have ...

    Article : 890 words
  22. POTATO LORE.

    Where did the potato come from? Who brought it to Britain? Nobody seems to know precisely where the potato came from ...

    Article : 313 words
  23. BROWN WASN'T GREEN.

    When Brown was transferred to another unit his adjutant wrote to the adjutant of the new regiment saying, "We are sending you Brown. He is ...

    Article : 332 words
  24. £1,600 FOR A BREAKFAST.

    As a result of showing kindness to a stranger who knocked at their door seventeen years ago, when he was "down and out," the family of the ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. WRITING WITHOUT HANDS.

    How would you manage if you were armless? Up to the present this has been a problem which has never received a ...

    Article : 177 words
  26. ALL IN A MINUTE.

    We do a good many things in a minute. For instance, we are whirled on the outside of the earth just thirteen miles, and have gone around the ...

    Article : 181 words
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