[thesis swamp] ... find of the... day...

Okay. So. For reasons! That are probably fairly obvious! While rummaging around on the internet! I stumbled across Isomorphic Relationship between Rubidium and Thallium in Igneous Minerals (Ahrens 1945), thought "oh shit why didn't I know about this paper?" and clicked through to the pdf.

1. Turns out I didn't know about this paper because it's actually about one column, and is essentially the conference-abstract version of Ahrens (1948).
   
2. But. As someone who compulsively reads any text in front of them. My eye was inexorably drawn. To the material that filled the rest of the column. Entitled Distribution of Wars in Time (Richardson 1945). I reproduce the text beneath the cut, for your convenience.

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