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...Ruhr occupation was primarily due to the fear of France regarding her security; the Japanese aggression against China would probably never have been attempted had Japan not believed, and rightly, that our absence from the League made sanctions impossible. Mussolini in all likelihood would not have planned his adventure in Africa had he thought the League could function in a divided world...
...obvious and most striking aspect of the proposal which the Undergraduate Council makes in its recent letter to the President is the extreme likelihood that such a reading period as it recommends will be used wisely, and not abused. It is workable. It is very easily adaptable to the Princeton "departmental" system...
Back in 1930 there seemed little likelihood that Jim Dole and his pineapples would ever get themselves into financial straits. Pineapples for U. S. consumption are practically a Hawaiian monopoly and the Dole company, along with California Packing and Libby, McNeill & Libby, dominated the industry. In 1930 the pack was 11,300,000 cases, of which Mr. Dole put up 4,500,000 cases. First Hawaiian sight glimpsed by travelers arriving from the "mainland" is an enormous pineapple (really a 400-ton water tank in disguise) on the roof of the Dole cannery. And along with Diamond Head. Pearl Harbor...
When the shirt-sleeved man in the green eyeshade scribbles LONG FLAYS NEW DEAL, or MILLIONS STARVE IN UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...
...between the defeats there have been redeeming performances which augur well for the future. The team has gained unity of purpose, and there are no longer players in competition with Fesler for the job of running the team. The house has been cleaned and put in order, and the likelihood is strong that next year will see, if not a championship combine, a team of ability treading the boards of the New Indoor Athletic Building...