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...Post. No, the Saturday Evening. I read that thing too. The guy's crazy. I said he's crazy. Like every Harvard man calling every one a guy. He must've stayed at the Liberal Club. No, I never. The cook's Russian. Liable to go nuts and blow the place up. They do that in Russia...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...announcement that Princeton has established a department of world finance is another blow to the venerable sentiment that the college exists only to instill the spirit of humanism. The introduction of the study of international commercial relations clearly indicates to what extent the demand for practical education has developed. Princeton's project is to bring theory and reality into conjunction by dealing with such problems as the collection of international debts, American foreign trade expansion, international tariff, and the need of a world-wide system of currency. Such a proposition lends impetus to the already popular theory of solving world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROESUS AND THE TIGER | 3/6/1929 | See Source »

...policy already casting its shadow over American college life. Whether it be the banning of automobiles for university students, the appointment of athletic captains and managers by coaches, the censoring of the student press, or just the classroom training of extra-curricular leaders, the effect is the same, a blow at self-reliance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LEADERS | 3/5/1929 | See Source »

...from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation. And here are the engraved commissions for the six new U. S. judges just confirmed by the Senate. Would the President blow up a bridge in California tomorrow evening? Very well, Mr. Forster will arrange for the connection. What flowers does the President like on his desk? Mr. Forster will get them. Will the President receive a delegation of Choctaw Indians and be photographed with them? No? Mr. Forster will send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to be President | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble'' in the middle of the race or "blow up" at the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Geddes at the Fair | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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