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...wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness of vision, how much was modesty, how much was love of quietness and independence? . . . Education such as I received in Boston was steadier and my associations more regular and calmer than they would have been in Spain, but there was a terrible moral disinheritance involved, an emotional and intellectual chill, a pettiness and practicality of outlook and ambition, which I should not have encountered amid the complex passions and intrigues of a Spanish environment...
...sufferers whose organs are normal, Dr. Alvarez knows from his own experience (gained chiefly during a long convalescence from influenza in 1918) that "functional" aches & pains may be just as debilitating as organic disease. These patients he treats with sympathetic advice, sometimes works cures by getting them to adopt calmer ways of thinking and living...
With these indignant outcries calmer Catholic voices chimed in. Said the archdiocesan weekly for Baltimore and Washington: "There has been some hypocrisy ... in the protests." Commonweal, edited by Catholic laymen, said: "The announcements [that special precautions were taken in the bombing of Rome] make it look as if Catholics thought there must be one justice for Rome and another for all other cities. ... To precisely the extent his faith is strong and informed [the Catholic] will make no distinction between the bombing of Rome and that of a miserable Calabrian village, an industrial city of the Ruhr and an English...
...Princeton the Varsity 150's had tough sledding. Arbitrarily placed in a rough outside lane, the Crimson dropped behind Princeton and Penn during the first half-mile when the latter were favored with calmer water. From the three quarter mark on the lightweights began to gain, but at the finish were still four feet behind Princeton, with Penn sandwiched second. The Tigers, in taking the Wright Cup from Harvard, shattered the Lake Carnegie Henly mark for the second time this year...
Standard's Lati sales were roundly damned by the Justice Department's Thurman Arnold and the Commerce Department's William La Varre. Finally came the State Department's Assistant Secretary Adolf A. Berle Jr., with a calmer appraisal...