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Madeira. When revolution seemed to threaten the little Portuguese isle, the "Lion of Poland" showed a tendency to yawn, to sprawl his bulk with even more abandon upon small wicker chairs...
...investigator soon discovers that the prevalent attitudes toward the examination fall into three rather clearly defined classes. Some educators--relatively few, to be sure--would abandon all examinations. They hold that examinations, especially those set and graded by an out-side agency, make it well-nigh impossible for them to do their best teaching...
...Commissioner Grubb, a Federal judge from Alabama and a sincere Dry, argued for a further trial of Prohibition-as-is. Said he: "If proper enforcement and observance are not had . . . within a reasonable period or if a better system is shown to exist, it will be time enough to abandon Prohibition and to adopt the better substitute...
...further research, and to care for segregated lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week's cruise, needs such money for the work in the Philippines. For its effect on morale the cruising experts advised Society to abandon the horrific term "leper" to substitute the softer term "case of leprosy...
...York Evening Gazette, a publication which could not value circulation more loved it not honor less, has decided to run the story of Nancy Voorhees, who was acquitted 20 years prior for murdering a man who tried to abandon her. As managing editor, it is the task of terse, authoritative Arthur Byron (The Criminal Code; One, Two, Three!) to have Nancy Voorhees sought out, to find what has happened to her. to point an unctuous moral for his readers. It so happens that news of the story breaks on the day that Nancy's pretty but illegitimate daughter...