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...contributing factor to their enthusiasm is the fact that bowling, like golf, is a solo game. A dub and an expert may bowl together and still have fun, for each is competing against his own score: trying to break 200 (upward) as a golfer tries to break 100 (downward). A bowler who averages 190 is good, one who averages 220 is exceptionally good, one who bowls 300 (a perfect game) gets his picture in the papers...
Although the provision for a single civil service administrator to replace the present commission was one of the questionable virtues of the now deceased reorganization bill, the extension of the merit system "upward, outward, and downward" was widely hailed as a reform of revolutionary character, and its defeat was the most unfortunate result of the recent House action. Nevertheless, the hope of reform is far from destroyed, for last Monday the Senate defeated the notorious McKellar spoils bill, and accepted a substitute measure...
...North Sea Route Administration faced, as the Soviet Council of People's Commissars ordered them investigated for "treason," "wrecking." Professor Schmidt, often called by Moscow papers "the Commissar of Ice," was not identified by name as Arctic Wrecker No.1 last week, but he was fairly started on the downward slide-by Big New Bolshevik Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior...
...Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground, the main stroke, more powerful than the leader, shoots upward to the cloud along the path created by the downward steps. In general the McEachron crew confirmed Schonland's findings, but they discovered that in some instances the leader stroke did not shoot downward from the cloud but upward from the building's top. They got pictures of branched lightning which forked upward...
Governor Earle pointed out to critics of an unbalanced budget that the United States' debt is less than a third that of France and England. "We must must stop the downward momentum by constructive government spending. Empty stomachs do not think...