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...tackling their studies with more energy and purpose. Well-geared is Vassar's administration to the current trend toward independent study. Any student may now get extra credit for reading, research or writing done in spare time or summer vacation, and high-ranking juniors and seniors are freed from most classroom requirements. Some critics think the papers in Vassar's Journal of Undergraduate Studies stand up well beside many a graduate thesis. That they take to heart their responsibilities under the New Deal and the New Leisure, Vassar girls have proven by approximately doubling their enrollment in economics...
Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
...desire that the priceless boon of sleep and rest be conferred as quickly as possible on as many as possible, and that the sick in particular shall be freed from the torment of the motor horn at night. . . . The caution which a motorist instinctively displays when he no longer has recourse to his hooter is a contribution to the measure we are taking to increase public safety...
Chimed in Governor Paul Vories McNutt of Indiana, whose parole board once freed John Dillinger, and from one of whose county jails Dillinger escaped: "The ordinary man is not satisfied with the present-day administration of justice and does not hesitate...
...fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified spider when City Prosecutor John K. Hull stepped forward, chloroformed both spider and scorpion...