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Your item on gasohol reminded me of a product sold in the early 1920s known as Alcogas. It cost more, but it burned clean and was very efficient. Alcogas was produced from molasses...
...years, and has not shown regularly in the U.S. Consequently, he seems more of a name than a presence in American art. In England, his reputation is, if anything, exaggerated in the other direction. He is widely regarded as a reincarnation of America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings and a few paintings at New York City's Marlborough Gallery compares him with Idaho-born Ezra Pound in London-"the Yankee outsider who has the energy to float a circus, and the courage to initiate its polemics...
Paul Samuelson, 63, economist, Belmont, Mass. He points to studies going back to the 1920s to show that "putting money out at the shortest intervals has been the best hedge against inflation." So Samuelson recommends that investors place their cash in six-month certificates of deposit in savings banks; or in the money-market funds-open-ended mutual funds that invest in short-term securities such as certificates of deposit, commercial paper and Treasury bills-that offer check-writing privileges...
...retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest set of tutorial reforms, but the aims of all legislation passed on the subject since the tutorial system began. The earliest report on tutorials in 1924 recognized that professors were best suited to lead individualized discussions. A 1920s reviewing board--known mysteriously as Committee G (because no one could remember its real title: The Committee on Methods of increasing the Intellectual Interest and Raising the Intellectual Standards of Undergraduates)--declared that the rank of tutor and lecturer should not be separated because "There is a growing belief that...
...SIDE FROM RESEARCH, another factor helps to explain Faculty reluctance to lead tutorials--the tutorial relationship itself whittles away at professors' exalted positions. Committee G recognized this pitfall back in the 1920s. The committee report said the effect of tutorials "will be to diminish the prestige of the teacher so far as this is an effect of distance and office. The tutorial calls for fraternity rather than paternalism...