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...dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation on this knowledge...
Guilds, popular in the Middle Ages among artisans and such, are now once more a favorite form of organization. Last fortnight the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra (Georges Zaslawskey, Conductor), which has just completed its first active season, became the Beethoven Symphony Guild, and incorporated in Manhattan as a non-profit-sharing membership corporation. The aims of the Beethoven Symphony Guild are: to maintain a high-calibre 100-piece symphony orchestra, to give low price concerts in obscure communities as well as metropolitan centres, to raise $200,000, to be selfsupporting...
...lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
...month ago William Ladd sold his membership in the New York Stock Exchange for $295,000. Last week he paid $360,000 to regain membership. His three weeks change of plans cost him $65,000. Nonetheless he made a large net profit on his transactions for when he first bought his Exchange membership (in December 1924) it cost him only...
...tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...