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...discard the Versailles treaty in its entirely. Neither of these moves can possibly be countered at the present moment and as one correspondent stated in a despatch, her re-entrance would have the effect of admitting a wolf into a pack of sheep. The League is so near the brink as it is, that to allow Germany to use her chambers as a battle-ground on which to fight for her territorial possessions would be to ring down the curtain on the last remaining organ fighting for world peace. This cannot, and must not be allowed...
Robert J. H. Kiphuth has been worried by the problem of being able to see, from his place on the pool's brink, only the upper half of what Yale swimmers were doing in the water. To the problem of how the other half swims, Coach Kiphuth last week discov ered a solution. Photographers were on hand when he proudly emerged from the Yale pool after sitting on the bottom, coaching in a diving suit...
Using an uncashed check as a bookmark brought Ralph J. Baker, professor of Law, to the brink of disbarment when the Supreme Court cited him for "unbecoming conduct." Mr. Baker's dealings were exposed by the Court in a pause yesterday following the decision returning $200,000,000 in impounded AAA processing taxes...
...great tradition decrees that, no matter how closely Europe may tremble on the brink of crisis, one may safely spend a British week end in the country and take a holiday over Christmas and New Year's. After observing this tradition. His Majesty's Government returned severally last week to London. The Home Secretary and Lady Simon had been having fliers at Monte Carlo. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin had hobnobbed with Worcestershire neighbors of their estate, "Astley Hall." Squire Baldwin, as he does every Christmas, put aside the fact that he is Conservative Party Leader...
...bathing suit entered the closed pool to "play polio" as Warm Springs poliomyelitis patients call their daily water exercises. In with him went his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, who had spent the night at the main building of the Foundation. By turns they sat on the pool brink, discussing their previous day's budget talk, by turns played in the warm water, snorting and burbling like two walruses...