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...today. Liberty's popularity with the man-and-woman-on-the-street can scarcely be denied. But, even though 1929 was a boom year, its advertising fell off. Meanwhile, old Collier's came up from behind, went far ahead. The Pattersons?pére et fille?could easily afford to throw Liberty away and still live lavishly on Tribune-News money. And they might do if Liberty were not, with him, a point of honor. As public evidence of loyalty to Father's enterprise, Daughter Alicia has frequently contributed articles and last week risked amused reactions of her friends by addressing...
...visitors saw latest developments in the committee's research facilities: ¶ A motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than a testpilot's pencilled log could afford. ¶ A "recording multiple manometer'' which registers the varying pressures upon 120 distinct portions of the wings during all maneuvers...
...royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet in his place, the loss would be greater than the world can afford. Let Reynard the Fox still run in the forest, and Dauber, occasionally at least, set out to sea again...
...shafts and his thunderbolts in well ordered legions. His keenness is surpassed only by his Utopia. He applies the spur so much needed in arousing an earnest interest in education, the most permanent social contribution of the age. There is no individual, no member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they keep step with the principles and practice of education. The "Awakening College" acts both as a stimulus and a text book in fulfilling this mission
...building in the University. There are buildings in the Yard, or nearer the Square end of the Yard which could be used. What seems to recommend the Union to the Overseers is the cheapness with which it can be converted. I suggest that the University could better afford to build a new set of freshman dining halls than to sacrifice a most valuable possession. Name withheld by request