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...Brisk Style...
...Justice Department's Anti-Trust division, the irreverent, irrepressible Assistant Attorney General had long since reached a dead end. First capital, then labor had been irritated by his monolithic determination to enforce the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws. Two years ago Arnold's brisk roundup of labor unions for trade-restraining practices was brought to an abrupt halt. The Supreme Court virtually forbade anti-trust prosecution of organized labor...
...Weather has a strong influence on the soldier's appetite. On cold, brisk days he wants 6% more than in moderate weather, 12% less on a hot day. After a day on the rifle range he eats 5% more than after a day in barracks, more during overcast weather than clear...
...lunch Oliver the psychiatrist received private patients in two dimly-lit rooms in Baltimore's Latrobe Apartments. Originally he had had to borrow money to furnish them, carefully seeing that they looked like a private apartment rather than a doctor's office. Soon he was doing a brisk business, got the reputation of the city's No. 1 psychiatrist...
...there's nothing to do but tell them it's got to be. Death of a legend or not, the CRIMSON is running a competition and it's not designed to bring on nervous breakdowns, probation, or draft exemption. An interested man can make the CRIMSON after a short, brisk competition designed to teach him and take him quickly...