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...eventually disastrous for them, for instead of harnessing and guiding this force for their benefit as they might do if they possessed sufficient foresight, they are merely exhausting themselves in battling the inevitable. When a class loses the power of adapting itself to a changing environment it will disappear just as surely as did the dinosaurs of another world. NEMO...
...with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted to her in 1935 as it is certain to do, Germany might forego her other demands and disappear as a cause of European nervousness for some years...
First commentator on Pilot Sheridan's harrowing experience was Publisher Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram. As an authority on meteors Publisher Perry declared: "The fact that Sheridan saw the meteor disappear is conclusive proof that he was not very close to it, because most meteors cease to glow at a height of about five miles...
Despite the present urgency, moreover, this is not a problem which will disappear with the depression. It is a problem which has existed throughout the Lowell regime and which was brought to acuteness by the institution of the House Plan. It is a problem which vitally concerns the future of Harvard College. President Lowell, while by no means unsympathetic to the financial needs of undergraduates, never attached to this matter its real importance. The cost of attending Harvard was allowed to rise and rise until there exists a very real danger that Harvard will become a rich man's college...
...front axle. The rear seat is moved forward some 20 inches from its old place on top of the rear axle to slope off the body. The front seat has been widened eight inches to hold three passengers comfortably. When and if streamlining is completed the running board will disappear and the engine will move to the rear. But that time is not yet. Such is Chrysler's attempt to give the automobile a shape of its own, to get further ahead in the automobile race of 1934. But he has by no means got that race to himself...