Cynthia and Sam Celebrate a Christmas Past Please
Cynthia recalls childhood Christmas with Sam, a rough boy turned friend, whose playful snowball hit her years ago. Now longing and memory mix as she struggles to feel festive during holiday gatherings on the West Coast. Sam’s unseen letter and snowball gift rekindle their longtime bond.
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Make This a Merry Christmas by Katherine Edelman
A festive call to embrace the Christmas spirit with home carols, bells, mistletoe, candles, greetings, and neighborly acts. Encourage cookies, a bright tree, gifts around it, and making the day memorable for children. 1933 Western Newspaper Union.
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Life of Basil Zaharoff Fears and Guards Above All
The elderly armaments dealer Basil Zaharoff, nearing 84, hides from life under doctors and a guarded routine. He spends winters in Monte Carlo and summers in Paris, watched by Mackenzie and two doctors, while his assets fund a vast global trade in war materiel.
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Head size and brain power debated by scientists
A Washington scientist urged British MPs to share head measurements as he studies correlations between skull dimensions and brain size. He notes some large brains belong to epileptoids and that eminent individuals vary. other studies find mixed results on height and intelligence, with London data suggesting shorter pupils may be less clever.
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Burgeniev
Cuvier
Iowa
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Variations in Colors of Locusts Explained
Mexican dispatches claim red communistic locusts attack crops, but entomologists say color changes reflect phase shifts in common locusts. Studies by Uvarov Faure and others show solitary green forms sometimes become migratory red or brown forms, not separate species.
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Imperial Institute of Entomology
J. C. Faure
University of South Africa
Africa
Cat Out o Bag Communal Confession Scene
A fragment shows characters debating secrecy and disclosure with a playful exchange about telling someone named Jones that one character is a blockhead. The dialogue hints at embarrassment and social caution in a casual, intimate moment.
Rex Ingram Embraces Islam Sees World Cure in Faith
Rex Ingram, the Irish born director now known as Ben Aalon Nacir ed Deen, tells a Chicago Tribune correspondent that a modified form of Islam could cure global economic ills. He plans a book, notes Islam’s Near East rise, and says Moslems work less and meditate more, arguing such restraint would lower unemployment and bring peace. He adopted Islam after a nervous breakdown led him to Morocco and studied the Woran, having been born in Dublin in 1892 and later studying sculpture at Yale.
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Stefansson Details Arctic Conditions And Misconceptions
Stefansson, famed Arctic explorer, downplays heroism and says proper precautions make Arctic life pleasant and travel feasible. He debunks myths on perpetual darkness and notes the pole has two thirds daylight annually and that extreme cold has been recorded in Yakutsk Siberia. The lecture also touches education values and career outcomes.
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Arctic
Scientific American
Stefansson
Arctic Circle
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Ya ‘Kutsk
Siberia
Good Book Wisdom On Wealth And Health
John Steven Mc Groarty recounts a roadside encounter with a man who reads the Bible for wisdom. The talk centers on Proverbs 23 and the folly of chasing riches, noting wealth can bring health decline and hunger for earthly gains. The piece ends urging heed to the Good Book over radio and doctor’s books.
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John Steven McGroarty
The
Los Angeles Sunday ‘Times
Men Embrace Cosmetics Says London Shop Chief
An article notes a London cosmetics chain director observing men growing more fastidious than a decade ago. In New York an expert on artificial aids to nature discusses men using cosmetics, a topic likely to stir less controversy today than in the past.
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