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...insist that the boxers only box for a certain number of days before each contest and insist that they be further handicapped by having one hand tied behind them during each fight? Our swimmers! Horrors! I hear that they are swimming during the summer. This is certainly a step backward, and they should be forbidden to swim except during the College swimming season. Our baseball team would be sufficiently handicapped if its practice were limited to three days before each game and if it were forced to play with an indoor baseball. I question if the great reformer whose editorials...
Premier Pierre Laval of France showed friends a copy of TIME with its story about him as "man of the year" (TIME, Jan. 4). When he proudly pointed out the observation that his surname spells itself backward, Leon Noel, new head of the Sûreté Générale, cried: "I'll double you. Chief...
...been making in small quantities since 1928, Errett Cord launched another car in late 1929, longer, lower, racier than his first. Expensive and finely engineered, with the driving power in the front wheels, it was named after himself. The Cord, jokes the automobile industry, is just an Auburn running backward. But Errett Cord, the industry admits, is still a Cord running forward. At the Show last week was to be seen a new Auburn V-Twelve with at least one exclusive device novel to the industry? a dual ratio rear axle operated from the dashboard. From...
...Greek, this compact little Auvergnat (son of a village butcher in Auvergne, south-central France) was a Senator of no party, an Independent. The public neither knew that he always wears a white wash tie (cheapest and unfading) nor cared to figure out that his name spells itself backward as well as forward. Addicted to scowling, didactic (he once taught school), possessed of a mellow but unexciting voice, identified with no conspicuous cause or movement, Senator Laval was also too young to be noticeable in France in January 1931. He was only 47 and France likes its Premiers...
...statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community has made up its mind that it wants." This statement is the kernel of Holmes" philosophy. It has kept him looking forward instead of backward at the lessons of history, and has made him the great liberal of the bench and the champion of social experiment...