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...country, the movement now seen on every hand that leads to the special handling of individual cases and to giving special individuals special privileges so as to let them get more out of their studies, is taken to be perhaps the chief educational tendency of the times. It will destroy the "lock step" into which the traditional curriculum has fallen...
...wrote the doctor, in effect, "my cigars are terrible and I blow the smoke in my opponent's face, why do my opponents never object at the time of blowing? Furthermore, if my cigars were of inferior quality, they would destroy the subtle, inimitable fabric of my own game. Those who have seen me play and watched the smoke curve will bear witness that it curves away from rather than toward my opponent." He went...
Polish frontier guards could not conceal their satisfaction-nor Germans their discomfiture. The hurtling fragments meant that the Germans were carrying out their promise to the Allied Council of Ambassadors (TIME, Dec. 20) that they would destroy the German fortifications against Poland, Germany having entered the League of Nations...
...madhouse of messages-irate farmers said: "Please sign the bill"; irate bankers said: "Please veto it." The President can take his choice. 1) To sign it would seem to repudiate every statement he has made on farm relief, would vex his own section of the country and party, would destroy his alleged reputation as a strong silent man. The farm bloc says that President Coolidge can quell revolt in his party and gain enough popularity in the West to be re-elected in 1928, if he signs. But it is a fact that many farmers dislike the McNary-Haugen experiment...
...called Facts of Life, such as cigarettes and harsh language fall violently on the timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...