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...Gold Cup craft, with superchargers. A minute before the third and last heat of the 12-litre race, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy, Count Rossi de Montelera. heading for the starting line in his red Barracuda, smashed into a little rowboat which he had failed to notice in his path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give the Count time to patch the hole in the Barracuda's bow. It made small difference in the result. His teammate Becchi, veteran automobile...
...announcement of the Loewenstein Fellowship marks the first practical step toward the easing of the path which connects college with the public service. The American political system, based upon party pyramids, has made it necessary for the college graduate to waste his most valuable years in routine party boot-licking, a task sufficiently unpleasant to drive any thoughts of a public career from the minds of many talented young men. This new fellowship proposes to bridge the gap between study and political activity by enabling the student to gain practical experience and the all-important contacts while he is still...
...never been considered. Now that the library is open in the evenings to habitants of those houses must take a detour of about six blocks to reach the welcoming doors of Widener. This obstacle seemingly miner, but in times of haste, or low temperatures, sufficiently annoying remains in the path to knowledge in order that the Yard may be protected from marauders and that Freshmen in Wigglesworth Halls may sleep undisturbed by the tramp of feet in the archways beneath. The purpose of keeping the gate directly behind the library firmly chained and bolted is harder to fathom...
...those hectic days of 1915 on the German-Austrian-Russian border, when all of Europe was aflame. What happens to a beautiful Russian girl who sacrifices everything to serve her country in the only way she knew how and the cross-roads she comes to when love crosses her path forms the plot of the picture. The cast includes Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward, Arnold, Noah Beery, John Miljan, Vince Barnett and Rollo Lloyd...
...path of Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution...