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Whether or not the individual enjoys this course depends almost entirely upon himself and his own tastes. It is not a hard course to pass, but a decent amount of application is needed to obtain honor grades...
Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York was on hand with his favorite crime statistics. Crime costs the nation $13,000,000,000 per year, said he. "Cut crime 20%," declared Senator Copeland, "and teachers can be paid decent salaries, 3,500,000 children can go back to school and 300,000 families can move out of depressing hovels into sanitary, sun-lit homes." His remedy for crime: education. "While we are striving to deal with one gangster, a thousand criminals are in the making. We pluck leaves from the tree of crime when we should...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...means a slight one--that prices of rum will be maintained on about the present level by the retail liquor stores and that they will simply pocket the extra profit. If this happens the Federal government should take steps to insure the sale of the rum at a decent price to the consumer, for the whole project is being financed by the government out of the funds of the Public Works Administration, and in view of this public character of the work it should certainly not be permitted to become merely a means of enriching private interests that have already...
When Chris and her parson husband, Robert, went to the little town of Segget they found the inhabitants a dour, gnarled lot. Chris was a woman and a realist, not much of a churchwoman, but Robert was a fiery Christian who wanted to make the whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized...