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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 23 words
  3. The Royal Road to Health

    To say that cleanliness means health may not invariably be true but it is, generally, a statement of fact. With improved standards of ...

    Article : 441 words
  4. CHARCOAL BURNING

    The Increasing cost of petrol has drawn attention to the prospects of produced gas plants, which manufacture a substitute fuel from charcoal ...

    Article : 807 words
  5. The Flower Scent Myth

    Statisticians are the most sceptical of men, never hesitating to overthrew even the most deeply-rooted of popular fallacies. ...

    Article : 429 words
  6. Key to Pacific Strategy

    The Dutch East Indies, always of great economic and political importance, have pained new significance because of Germany's overrunning of ...

    Article : 586 words
  7. Britain Keeps Food Prices Down

    Since the outbreak of war the British Government has become the largest food importer in the world. Business men who previously dealt in these ...

    Article : 712 words
  8. Thoughts for the Week

    Defer not till to-morrow to be wise. Look one step onward and secure that step. It is better to conquer by virtue ...

    Article : 262 words
  9. Successful Living

    "How shall we define successful living? What tests can we apply to it? Material standards are not enough. The satisfactions of appetite or ...

    Article : 502 words
  10. A PERSISTENT PLANT

    A British scientist once carried on some very interesting experiments in an endeavor to determine whether or not plants possess any intelligence or ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. HOW LIFE GOES

    "That is how life goes on. The child says, 'When I am a big boy'—but what is that? The boy says 'When I grow up'—and then, grown up, 'When I get ...

    Article : 302 words
  12. THE ART OF LITHOGRAPHY

    It is believed that the art of lithography was accidentally discovered; about 1800, by Alois Senefelder, who was horn in Prague, Bohemia. ...

    Article : 216 words
  13. Portland Cement

    Like so many other everyday commodities—stainless steel, the fountain pen, linoleum, to mention only a few —Portland cement owes its origin to ...

    Article : 347 words
  14. REVOLUTIONISING GRASSSEED FARMING

    The recent advent of the travelling grass-seed cleaning machine, which does a very excellent job indeed, though it cannot do all the intricate ...

    Article : 268 words
  15. THE BUTTON-HOLE

    Do you know how the button-hole had its beginning? If you don't, well, here it is. At a State gathering Queen Victoria ...

    Article : 204 words
  16. Get Rid of the Dog

    Brown lived between Gray and Green. Gray had a barking dog that was the torment of Brown's life. One day, in desperation, he told ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. SCUTTLED TREASURE SHIPS

    For more than two centuries a fleet of treasure galleons, scuttled to prevent their cargoes of gold and silver from the Indies falling into the hands ...

    Article : 223 words
  18. A SILKWORM OF THE SEA

    Silk is obtained from the shell fish known as the pinna, which is found in the Mediterranean. This shellfish has the power of spinning a viscid silk ...

    Article : 172 words
  19. The Greatest Virtue

    Two spinsters were discussing matrimony. Said the first: "Which would you sooner have—a man with wealth, ...

    Article : 150 words
  20. The Portent

    Jones was very proud of his small son's progress at school, and was showing off the boy's scientific knowledge in front of some friends. ...

    Article : 83 words
  21. Coming Event

    Mother, "Well, Johnny, I shall forgive you this time, and it's very nice of you to write a letter to say you're sorry." ...

    Article : 78 words
  22. Nothing Extra

    An Englishman and a Jewish friend talking about conscription were recalling the Great War. "And did you join the army, Abe?" ...

    Article : 43 words
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