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...furthermore a more childish attitude than ought to be taken by the Harvard student body. We ought not to have such an exaggerated sense of our own individuality that we resent any contact with other--and especially older--individuals which might in any sense seem to limit this "precious" possession of ours. Such an attitude does not permit of full individual development, to say the least...
...Montreal Forum convinced that it will be a long time before any other club will be able to muster up power enough to turn them back. The Maroons are a heavy, bruising outfit, but good as they were they were no match for the Boston team when the precious goals were needed. It is in the matter of teamwork that the Bruins particularly excel. When a streaking forward gets by the opposing defense he can be pretty sure that one of his teammates will be right up there with him to take the pass and nullify the efforts...
...certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
...pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer, due to the retail hope for lower schedules. Happily he pointed to the accidental under-stocking that has allowed Manhattan jewelers to weather the storm. Confidently he predicted renewed buying by stock-shy investors of safe, eternally valuable precious stones...
...husband and wife were Mr. & Mrs. Lev Davidovich Trotsky. Exiles from Tsardom, they had crossed on the little Spanish steamer Montserrat to live with relatives in The Bronx, were anxious to get to bed. To The Bronx their friend Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin took them, after showing off his precious Library. It was his gold mine, the dingy Golconda from which he was digging material for tome after ponderous tome, his monumental works on Capitalism and Communism...