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...colleges reveals that the answer to the decline in attendance at football games lies somewhere in between these two views. It seems a far cry to say that interest is falling so rapidly that the end of football is near at hand, but yet it is also hard to explain the great drop in gate receipts this year solely on the grounds of depression or even very largely on these grounds. Athletic associations all over the country report much greater drops in attendance this year over that of last year than were noted in the attendance last year over that...
...those emanations is unknown. Sir William thinks that they are chemical individuals, that "their physiological activity must be prodigious, equaling or even exceeding that of snake venom. . . . Of what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...
After having predicted that the Russian Five Year Plan would take fifty years to explain and that New York would have to be reforested seventeen times to furnish enough pulp to make straw ballots, this election dope is child's play. I'll go on record right now as prophesying a victory for the silver tongued bond salesman from Hyde Park by 430 electoral votes. Because the Great Engineer denied torturing Chinese coolies, he will lose California and South Boston...
...lawyers as John William Davis, Newton Diehl Baker and Frank Lyon Polk were not publicly outraged. Governor Roosevelt's use of "control'' was undoubtedly ill-chosen. The Supreme Court is properly divided not as Republicans and Democrats but as Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench to run for President...
Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...