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Does this convince you, TIME? Will this correct your error? To pacify the Badger god, let every man in your office stand, face the west, and sing in his most penitent voice, "On Wisconsin...
...that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That the conditions of this scientific drinking bout may be better understood--are the tipplers to clear their taste with Old Golds between cups...
...order that the claims of these specimens to special classification might be shown to be in error, an exhaustive study had to be made of virtually all the available material about gorillas extant throughout the world. It is such a study which Mr. Coolidge has just completed, and it is upon such a study that his findings rest...
...gravely hushed Senate. Arose Senator Bingham, again to speak in self-defense, this time softly, tactfully. His defense: Senators hire their "cousins, sons and daughters" as clerks and nobody complains; he made no profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...
Friday there were no quotations nor Saturday for the Exchange was closed. Clerks who had passed many a sleepless night, slept, then returned to clean up the greatest amount of work which brokerage houses have ever had in so short a time. In the hurly-burly many an error had been made. The clerks had to discover them, rectify them. But in the Stock Exchange Friday and Saturday there was quiet...