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Russell has never been backward about saying what he himself thinks. "I think the universe is all spots and jumps, without unity, without continuity, without coherence or orderliness or any of the other properties that governesses love." But he is no fatalistic pessimist. "It may be that God made the world, but that is no reason why we should not make it over." He pays his irreverent respects by the way to many an established notion, sums up psychoanalysis in a neat paragraph. "I do not think that psychoanalysts have reflected very deeply upon the distinction between phantasy and reality...
Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...
...altruism. Today restless millions turn for economic leadership; history clearly shows the indifferent ruling class its way to destruction. The Age of the Machine has brought shorter hours for man's work. Culture of construction must follow or this new leisure is achieved in vain. Harvard shall not be backward in the expert consideration of these problems of transition...
...filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...
Thus does Simmons Co. now advance by going backward. The company is in a strong cash position, having ended last year with $6,682,000 in the banks, none owed them, with $21,000,000 current assets against $2,228,000 current liabilities. Its beds and mattresses (Beautyrest, Deepsleep, Slumber King, Ace) are still leaders. An ace-in-the-hole which it has long threatened to play on the industry is Zalmite, a synthetic compound whose chief ingredients are said to be peanut shells, burlap & other waste materials. Zalmite was of course named for President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons. Although early...