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  2. THE WINNER

    I should think that old Stiggins, the cashier at our office, is the meanest man in the world. Look, for instance, at his behavior over the Purkis ...

    Article : 984 words
  3. Salt and Superstition

    Few women would like to face a day in the kitchen without salt, that humble but essential ingredient which is so cheap that we are apt to ...

    Article : 329 words
  4. Gossip May Be Kindly

    You must be a very unusual person if you have never asked yourself, after being party to a gossipy half-hour, “Why did I say this? or that?” ...

    Article : 743 words
  5. Romance of Radium

    It is pointed out, in regard to medical and surgical results so far accomplished by radium, that Borne of the highest hopes for it have not yet been ...

    Article : 530 words
  6. [A Girl’s Short Story.] Nancy Leonard’s Frocks

    If any metropolitan modiste ever had a more canny eye for line, color, and general fitness than Nancy Leonard, nobody in Easton had seen her. The ...

    Article : 975 words
  7. Town of the Future

    New towns with houses heated from hot water mains are envisaged by Mr. Raymond Walker, architect to the Coal Utilisation Council, in a paper ...

    Article : 158 words
  8. This State of Freedom

    "How I envy you your freedom!" is an exclamation so often made to mo by people who seem to visualise the life of an explorer as one of perpetual, ...

    Article : 720 words
  9. HUNT FOR £600,000.

    Men have been searching for gold from time immemorial, but there is a gold hunt going on In England just now which must be one of theang ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. GUN SHOOTS HOLES IN OCEAN BED.

    A gun, specially made to shoot holes in the bottom of the ocean and bring the contents three miles to the surface, has been used successfully in ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. HEART KEPT BEATING.

    "He was dead, but his heart went on beating for a quarter of an hour." This statement was made at the inquest at Hersham, Surrey (England) ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. WHAT'S A PALINDROME?

    Whenever you find a word, verse, or sentence that reads the same backwards as forwards, there you have a palindrome. Single-word examples of ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. The Same—But Different.

    A parson thought it advisable to marry for the fourth time. Calling on one of his elders to inform him of his intention, he said: “You see, I am an ...

    Article : 388 words
  14. BANANAS BENEFICIAL.

    Because it is so cheap and can be eaten without preparation, the banana is not regarded as an aristocrat of the fruit world. Yet according to an ...

    Article : 191 words
  15. THE LAZY MAN.

    A man seeking work with a face unwashed, a chin unshaven, and boots innocent of polish stands scant chance of finding it. ...

    Article : 241 words
  16. DISNEY’S NEW FILM.

    Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies, is half-way through his first full-length feature film, which will run for 75 to ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. RADIO REVER.

    Since the war scientists have been finding uses for fever. They believe that an increase in temperature is Nature’s method of protecting a run-down ...

    Article : 140 words
  18. Not What He Meant.

    One Saturday two clergymen were out together. Towards the end of the day it suddenly occurred to one of them that he had no sermon ready ...

    Article : 179 words
  19. She’d Try!

    The clear old lady was having a few words with her very modern granddaughter. “My dear," she said, “I know you ...

    Article : 111 words
  20. Unlikely.

    The clergyman was about to christen the baby. “You may grow up to be an admiral of the Fleet or a general in the Army, ...

    Article : 50 words
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