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...While I do not favor "a vengeful exwife" keeping her husband in jail rather than accept an alimony cut, I do sympathize with the case of a woman whose husband, whether or not it is his fault, has ceased to pay her the income agreed upon when they separated...
...ground. The Supreme Court ruled that farmers and gasoline stations were retailers and their exemption from that category by the General Assembly violated the uniformity clauses of the State's constitution whereunder all businesses in the same class must be treated alike. The court also found serious fault with the two-way spending system...
...passenger planes with the Sperry "robot" pilot, a gyroscopic device which automatically keeps a plane on a set course (TIME. Oct. 19, 1931). In principle it was a success. But just as a human novice may fly a plane safely but clumsily, the robot pilot was awkward. Its worst fault was the same as the common fault of the human: slamming the controls this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy improving it. Last week the robot was presented again, this time...
...reputation among the courses in the field of Biology; in general, this reputation is deserved. The lectures are the best point of the course, and they are by no means as good as might be expected. They are, however, moderately interesting to one who likes the subject, their worst fault being the disproportionately large amount of time spent on classification of animals...
...review by John Corbin, is an excellent treatment of a too little considered subject. Mr. Corbin traces the influence of the Jew over the American stage, analyzing its eventual triumph over both the artistic and business aspects, and producing a piece of critical prose enlightening and provocative. Its only fault is the common one of excessive generalization; because of this, flaws may easily be picked in it by the various satellites of the theatre...