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By ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

The NEW DECALOGUE

OF SCIENCE

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After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride to:

Eight young gentlemen selected by Dr. Samuel Johnson. (P. 16.)

Proud miners who threw nuggets of gold at her feet. (P. 30.)

Fifty per cent of the bread consumed in the U. S. (P. 27.)

A youthful Los Angelist. (P. 20.)

Yale's stuffed animals. (P. 16.)

Intelligent queries from heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed and fluffed. (P. 17.)

An attractively illustrated volume for the living room table. (P. 14.)

Manhattan yeggman shivering, groaning. (P. 20.)

A modern Theseus. (P. 1.)

The prestige of a dead warrior's name. (P. 4.)

The high holy days of Rosh Hoshana, Yom Kippur, Shmimi Atzereh. (P. 18.)

Thirty-nine sympathetic superintendents. (P. 17.)

Some long-awaited golf grist. (P. 20.)

A proposal 12 miles deep. (P. 19.)

A bronze-skinned buckaroo with a flashing red neckerchief. (P. 22.)

156.11 m.p.h. by motor car. (P. 22.)

242 m.p.h. by an airplane. (P. 24.)

Idealist Mencken. (P. 22.)

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Having perused well the chon of the week, the Vigilant Patri views with alarm:

An anemic, jaundiced, sickly, inart ulate pineapple. (P. 18.)

"Polished neglect" of Prof. Georg Pierce Baker. (P. 16.)

A goat with injured dignity. (P. 3)

Blowsy, slipshod English. (P. 22)

A hearty disinclination on the part of the singers to do more than sing (P. 12.)

A black silk mother-in-law. (P. 15.

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