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...shows that applications for rooms priced at $260 or less are considerably in excess of the number available, while the demand for rooms priced at above $260 is less than the supply. For this reason a notice was posted in the Union on Tuesday asking all Freshmen who could afford to do so, to increase their stated maximum rental to include rooms priced above $260. Even when students cannot raise their maximum above $260, they are urged to relieve the demand for rooms at the lowest prices, by increasing the maximum amount by as much as they can afford...
...Could not TIME . . . afford the two or three lines necessary to state that the use of barbiturates as antidotes for strychnine poisoning (TIME. March 13) was established by my associates Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Mr. Leon Arnold Greenberg...
Founded by Copperman Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh, the Fellowships continue to afford security for a year of work and creation, but depression has forced the number of winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise...
Vitangelo Moscarda, young married man of the town of Richieri, could afford to entertain ideas: his banker-father had left him controlling interest in the bank, with no responsibility beyond signing an occasional paper. His young wife and he loved each other, lived comfortably; but was he content? He was not. His wife called him Gengé and thought him a dear silly fellow. Townsfolk called him "the usurer." When he tried to catch a glimpse of himself as he really was, he found- nothing. The more he brooded over his undiscoverable identity the more despairing he became. Finally...
...brains were driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect ability and energy to their enemy's camp...