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Fifteen thousand faithful Bolsheviki are employed to prevent the Senators from coming into contact with the ordinary citizens. Elaborate preparations are said to have been made to create an impression of prosperity and satisfaction. The Soviet leaders are reputed to believe that a favorable opinion by the Senators on their return to the United States will be a decisive factor in influencing the United States to grant credit. Continuing, the report stated that the Soviet tactics are nothing new in the history of Russia: "Catherine the Great preceded Senators Ladd and King along the road of Russian dupes when...
Children of the Moon. The moon, according to the thesis of this curiously cabalistic play, is a bad parent. Each month when her silver face is toward the earth she curls invisible, strange tentacles around her children's minds and cuts for a time their contact with the world...
False Economy. Professors are not paid enough. Besides the bad results which everyone now realizes, there is also this: professors' wives are cut off from contact with the students and the intellectual life of the university; they are driven to frivolity, intrigue...
...half as much as her successor would start in at if that successor were a man. She is lady bountiful to Alice's children. But the spice has gone out of her work, for sex-discrimination keeps her from the higher rungs of the ladder and her only human contacts are the vicarious ones with Alice's family, with her roommate, with Mitxi, her cat. Stung by an impulse she does not wholly understand, she attempts to resume contact with Martin?now a successful business man in Philadelphia?only to find that he has divorced her and married again...
...established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that of Prof. Yves Delage, in France. Dr. Agassiz's program was revolutionary, one of his rules being the complete prohibition of textbooks in favor of first-hand contact with living material. A sort of scientific communism formed the atmosphere of the school and made possible its; great contributions to our knowledge of the ocean's life...