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  2. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Before the Panama Canal was cut (writes the Auckland correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor") the world did not give a thought to remote ...

    Article : 561 words
  3. SAME TO YOU

    Wife—What did he say, dear?" Husband—"I dunno. Shout out Ditto." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 20 words
  4. HUNTING ECHOES.

    Experts are busy making experiments that will show how to "kill" unwanted echoes in public buildings. These have always been a serious ...

    Article : 579 words
  5. THE "GRANNIE SMITH"

    An industry giving employment to thousands was founded when Mrs. Smith threw a few unwanted apples into her garden in Australia 50 years ...

    Article : 403 words
  6. MISSING SOLDIERS

    The Prisoners of War Support Association in London recently asked veterans of the various countries to organise campaigns of search to see if ...

    Article : 202 words
  7. OCEAN ODDITIES

    Write down 325. Add 15 noughts, and you have the number of tons of water in the Atlantic. If you wanted to put this ocean into a tank each of ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. SONG AND SURGERY

    An American experimenter has succeeded in making a canary sing like a nightingale. What led to the great consummation ...

    Article : 166 words
  9. THE SCIENCE OF FLOW

    The formation of the Society of Rheology has caused considerable comment. Rheology is the science of flow. It appears to have been news that such ...

    Article : 184 words
  10. A TALE OF SIR GEORGE GREY

    An incident in the life of one of Britain's sons, Sir George Grey, who helped in the settlement of the southwest of Australia, is related in a ...

    Article : 320 words
  11. LONG-TOM BEDS

    Each ward in the new block at St. Bartholomew's Hospital is to have a Long-Tom bed, suitable for patient's over six feet. ...

    Article : 214 words
  12. ADVICE FOR THE TENNIS PLAYER

    One of the commonest offences in lawn tennis is the breach of the footfault rule. There are always numerous complaints about the lack of ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. ANCIENT REMAINS IN MACEDONIA

    The officials in charge of [?] at Verroia, in Macedonia, has advised the Ministry of Education at Athens of what promises to be important ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. REMARKABLE MACHINE

    Remarkable stories are reaching London concerning a hybrid man-carrying apparatus, which is said to be part aeroplane and part submarine. ...

    Article : 131 words
  15. JULIA

    Some ask me where the rubies grow, And nothing did I say. But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. AN INK FOR GLASS

    An ink for writing on glass can be made by dissolving ordinary orange shellac in good methylated spirit and then mixing it with water in which ...

    Article : 105 words
  17. EATING TO THINK

    Half a peanut or a biscuit supplies all the brain food a University professor needs for an hour of continuous thought. That is the claim by Dr. ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. DECORATED FOOD

    Films of gold and silver, beaten to[?] thinness, are used to decorate food in some parts of India, where the wealthy natives believe that ...

    Article : 34 words
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