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...Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water" the sequel to the play's title, represents the reluctance with which the mother in the story, author, lecturer, feminist, and graduate of Greenwich Village, grants permission to her impetuous daughter to go away on a clandestine week-end with the young man she loves but cannot yet marry. This daughter is bidding fair to be fully as enlightened as her mother was, for it is she who suggested the week...
...slides back; he writes his name and the name of his beneficiary. The time of day is then stamped on the policy (issued by Great Northern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee), it is violently ejected from the machine and the customer is thereupon properly insured against "loss of life, limb, limbs or time by accidental means...
...joined the Washington University staff in 1920. He likes detective stories and P. G. Wodehouse, is the author of some 75 technical articles and of Modern Physics, a popular college textbook. He realizes quite well the need for further checking of his findings. "I'm out on a limb now," he said philosophically last week. "I hope this thing stands up." He also said that he had got his original hunch while reading TIME'S story on the X-particle in the issue of November...
...accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb of speculation...
...players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive Man, the Scholar, the Hysterical Mystic, the Infantile Man, the Man who Waits for the Right Time, while red-bannered masses see the forward and underneath...