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Clearly the lawyers' rather neat discovery had made it necessary for the Iron Man to haul down his nailed-up flag and he, astute, knew how to perform this second "impossible" feat...
...paying a few pounds more or remaining in residence at the college a few months longer. In America it has become purely a "mechanical" degree, which a college graduate may automatically obtain by passing with credit so many courses. It does not show that the holder is prepared to perform satisfactorily a professional duty, but merely indicates that he is a passably good student in a certain field of study...
Famed actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay...
...these and many another were Men of the Year, but the discerning citizen would pause long before putting any of them ahead of the man, apparently the one man, who could and did perform the year's largest politico-economic job for the world's leading nations. Economics underlies war. War leaves economic tangles which must be straightened out before society can proceed in peace. The man who spent four months as foreman of the high financial wrecking crew which was the Second Reparations Conference, was Owen D. Young of Van Hornesville...
...morning, however, cooler counsels prevailed, and Le Temps, semi-official organ of the French Foreign Office said: "If there was an insult, it was not to France, but to Rumania. . . . With a government like that at Moscow it is a singularly delicate and always ungrateful task to attempt to perform good offices...