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...mind, the "Black" fleet of Problem No. 14 that sweeps east this week from Hawaii to the mainland, represents no fleet but Japan's. U. S. sea-dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition...
...Mencken's arguments are a bit high-strange; they savor of viciousness. But it is evident that he has struck a blow in the right place, though he may have struck too hard. From a purely intellectual point of view, the schools need revision. And from the standpoint of financial expediency, they are more than wasteful. For this hard-spent money, the citizens are given, as Mr. Mencken says, the sight of a myrind palatial buildings, "out of each vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy... an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which...
...morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present for the evening services. But Choirmaster Aurand was there. He arose and announced a hymn. Savagely Mr. Conway wheeled about. Out shot his black-clothed arm; his gaunt hand struck Choirmaster Aurand a sharp blow. Across the rostrum, over the chancel rail tumbled the choirmaster, to the floor five feet below...
...Falls, Wis. had ceased sneezing when Mrs. Lonnie Dickson, 48, of Princeton, Ky., commenced to sneeze. Daisy held the time record (nine days); Mrs. Dickson set the frequency record (25 times a minute). While the excitement lasted friends advised all sorts of remedies-pressing the upper lip, cold baths, blowing cigaret smoke through the nose. Doctors cured both sneezers by giving them sedatives (which allowed them to sleep and gain strength) and letting the attacks blow themselves...
...professor should sometimes adopt the procedure he does. He believes that by so doing he prevents those who have gone to the tutoring bureaus from getting a good grade in the course. But the evil connected with the system is that if he has delivered a killing blow to the Widow's patrons, he may at the same fell swoop, have hurt those average students who have been steadily working during the term...