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  2. CURRENT OPINION

    Land hunger is a human instinct.-- Sir F. Williams-Taylor (Bank of Montreal). ...

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  3. WIT AND HUMOUR

    Having returned to Edinburgh after his first visit to London, a Scot was asked what he thought of the English. "English? I didna see any English. I only ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. WEEKLY REVIEWS

    DURING February several parcels of high-grade copper ores were purchased in the Cloncurry district on account of the Mount ...

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  5. WIRELESS WORLD

    OUR own station has commenced broadcasting upon high power now, and as a result the majority of listeners within a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. THEATRE CHAT

    ONE of the principal members of the Dion Boucicault Company, which is opening at the King's Theatre, Melbourne, to-night, ...

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  7. THE PICTURES

    DW. Griffith's greatest comedy success, Sally of the Sawdust." will open at the Wintergarden on Monday for three days ...

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  8. FINANCE

    THE resolution passed at the Associated Chambers of Commerce conference that it was desirable that provision should ...

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  9. A TYRANT CANNOT BE GOOD.

    Nowadays in a civilised country a tyrant cannot be "good."--Prof. G. Salvomini. ...

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  10. THE ALL-ROUND WORKER.

    At present it is the older workman who is the best all-round man.--Mr. H. Ward. ...

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  11. FOR OLD AND YOUNG.

    Give to young people sympathetic help and to old people helpful sympathy.--Sir Cuthbert Grundy. ...

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  12. OUR FRIENDS THE FRENCH.

    The French are a highly-civilised nation, but not in any sense a very generous nation.--Dean Inge. ...

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  13. IMPOSSIBLE.

    To puff oneself out with will-power is, after a time, as impossible as to go on holding one'e breath.--Mr. Robert Lynd. ...

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  14. LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

    My experience is that those who look for trouble can always get it.--Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. ...

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  15. NOT MACHINES ONLY.

    We believe that the function of education is not merely to make calculating machines.--The Lord Mayor. ...

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  16. UNPREPARED.

    The world is not organised or prepared for a much higher level of intelligence than it has already got.--Mr. J. F. Duff. ...

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  17. SAVING.

    It is socially very much more desirable that 100 people should save £10 than that one person should save £1000.--Mr. W. Graham, M.P. ...

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  18. BISHOPS AND THEIR "MOVES."

    Clergy should be forbidden to play chess, lest they be tempted to think that bishops can only move diagonally, never straight.--The Vicar of St. Paul's, ...

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  19. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF GOVERNMENTS.

    My experience is that Governments never contribute anything to anything that is any good.--Mr. J. H. Thomas. ...

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  20. DISEASE NOT INEVITABLE.

    There is no necessity for people to die from disease. It really is possible to bring about such a high state of health in a community that disease can be kept ...

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  21. CHILDREN BARRED.

    In Glasgow it is as true to-day of the mother and child as it was at the first Christmas. There is no room for them--oven in a manger--Mr. Rosslyn. ...

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  22. ARTIST WORKERS IN COMMERCE

    I do not think one finds such a large output of artist craftsmen absorbed yearly into commercial work here as one does in France.--Col. Vernon Willey. ...

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  23. INTELLIGENCE AND ADAPTABILITY.

    The future of industry rests on the cultivated talent and organising genius of the few and the intelligence, adaptivity, and co-operation of the many ...

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  24. ELIMINATING THE WHISTLE

    When a two-stage amplifier works well except for a continuous whistle it is probable that the transformers are spaced too closely together. Try placing ...

    Article : 103 words
  25. THE MODERN "PRAM."

    The modern baby is apt to be pallid, even though it may be plump and muscular. The modern perambulator is deep and dark, so that a small infant lying ...

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  26. THEATRE-GOING FOR AMUSEMENT.

    I have come to the conclusion that the general London play-going public goes to the theatre only for amusement, and its definition of amusement does ...

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  27. RADIO PROGRAMME

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 words
  28. TO-DAY'S "YOUNG THING."

    I amuse myself sometimes by wondering what the immaculate chaperons of the 'seventies and eighties, who still survive, must think of the emancipated ...

    Article : 155 words
  29. TURKEYS DISAPPEAR

    The scientists of the U.S. Federal Department of Agriculture are struggling with the problem of overcoming the [?] turkeys to disappear from the ...

    Article : 133 words
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