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Blood analysts were to be called in, and anthropometrists, finger print experts, palmists, et...
...allow their private affairs--of which their budget is certainly one--to be placed even on the more or less confidential files of the Bureau. And it is annoying, if nothing else, to have to fill out blanks about one's personal affairs, home address, father's name, and et cetera and ad absurdum. No intelligent employer will ask for such information and the sole purpose accomplished by the Bureau in requiring it is to make the sensitive applicant more sensitive and the independent applicant more determined to keep to himself what concerns only himself. The sensitive soul will fill...
...Revue du Vrai et du Beau (Review of the True and the Beau-tiful), French art journal, wrote under a reproduction of "Exalta-tion" as follows: "This artist has a distinctly individual manner in representing people and objects, and uses the brush to symbolize the sentiments. In this he is at times a little literary. . . . Pavel Jerda-nowitsch is not satisfied to follow ordinary paths. He prefers to explore the heights and even, if necessary, to peer into the abysses. His spirit delights in intoxication, and he is a prey to the esthetic agonies which are not experienced without suffering...
...began when the hamlet of Bracieux in the department of the Loir-et-Cher honored Mme. Monestes, village midwife, with the title of "Champion Midwife of France." She had supervised with practiced hand the birth of no less than 1,000 squalling, red infants. "Truly," remarked the simple paysans, "the village owes its life to 'Mother' Monestes...
...companies registered last December had submitted to the new laws; budget remained unbalanced, but the Government was more than ever determined to enforce rigid economy in its services; the Yaqui rising and the rebellions in the States of Jalisco and Guanajuto (TiME, May 2 et seq.) were noted as disturbing factors in the economic life of the nation...