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...message from G. B. Shaw said: "As the amoeba does not understand birth control, it cannot abuse it and therefore its state may be the more gracious ; but it is also true that, as the amoeba cannot write, it cannot commit forgery; yet we teach everybody to write unhesitatingly, knowing that if we refuse to teach anything that could be abused, we should never teach anything...
Fall hoped to escape prosecution. Warren will be assured against punishment. Fall aided others to commit crime. Warren connived and assisted in the execution of crime. Fall's unlawful purpose was secret. Warren's corrupt practices are today known...
...does not seem as if the local minions of the law would have time for such wholesale tagging as occurs it they were engaged in active pursuit of real criminals. The protection must be slack if a lawbreaker can commit a series of twenty-nine crimes over a period of eight years, and then receive a sentence of one year. This person apparently stands a far better chance in the course than Mr. Undergraduate '26, who gets fined on his first minor infraction...
News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...
Commons. In answer to questions from the Opposition, Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House that "His Majesty's Government" intends to revert to a gold currency standard at the "earliest possible moment." He would not commit himself more definitely...