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...Consensus of economists was that commodities were now back in reasonably good line with other prices, certain farm commodities excepted. Even among them the readjustment was proceeding apace, with wheat down from $1.45 to $1.23 per bu., corn from $1.35 to $1.27 per bu., cotton from 14½? to 12½? per lb. Yet farm prospects are the best in years. With bumper crops expected, prices could drop much more and still leave farmers with the biggest income since Depression. Out last week was a U. S. crop estimate for winter wheat of 654,000,000 bu., biggest since...
...Kentucky Derby is to answer the question which was disturbing Louisville last week, attempts to answer it by other means are preposterous as well as premature and probably in error. Nonetheless, last week a large portion of the U. S. press and public concentrated on doing so. Consensus of innumerable touts and tipsters who make their livelihood from just such vain speculations was that it was practically impossible for any horse at all to win the Derby. Pompoon's alleged fault was lack of stamina; his sire, Pompey, was a famed sprinter but bad at long races...
...hope the writer of your editorial of today, May 6, headed "And Leave The World to Silence" is expressing a private "peeve" and not the consensus of opinion of your editorial board or the students in general. In this editorial exception is taken to the carrying on of redecoration and other work during term time...
...experimental associative-train-of-thought style which in the next ten years she developed into full flower. With Jacob's Room (1922), she captured the critics, began to win the reading public as well. Of her other books, Mrs. Dalloway is the most popular, but critical consensus has hailed The Waves as her masterpiece...
...would be the consensus of Americans that the present war represents a conflict between two totalitarian philosophies, either of which sits ill on democrat's stomach. Yet the names of the speakers makes certain that tonight's discussion will be more of a loyalist rally than a forum of debate. Further, the sponsors believe that the charged oratory will facilitate mulcting the audience of its coppers to improve the efficiency of loyalist machine-gunners. The Student Union has thus committed itself and its hearers to a certain set of preconceived ideas, to a "cause" which, however, emotionally satisfying, is hardly...