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...scientific conclusion of the whole matter is that statistics collected by such specialists offer no proof, and in fact, no indication of what may be the situation among young people in general. Remember that only engaged couples who are anxious about their sexual affairs would be likely to consult such specialists as Dr. Dickinson and Dr. Dearborn. That . . . will explain why their opinions were opposed by the overwhelming majority of competent persons in the conference...
...proof he had the writings of students in 205 colleges, including every major one except Princeton, whose Class Poet in 1903 was Henry Goddard Leach. Every State except Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming was represented. There were marked regional differences. Most melodious were Southern poets, who picked dark themes, treated them tenderly. Most mystical were Californians; most practical, Ohioans. Natives of New England and Oregon, its Pacific offspring, were inclined to find their romance in scientific observation. New Yorkers distinguished themselves by lack of originality, as compared with Minnesotans...
...Eastern Locarno game which is likely to be long. If Adolf Hitler can be induced to sign?and by signing the Eastern Locarno he would renounce Nazidom's most cherished dreams for expansion?so much the better for peace. The opening gambit last week faced the Hitler Government with proof that Nazi Germany has been diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves...
Canny Dutchmen, the rioters began by looting sellers of building supplies, built high bullet-proof barricades. They screamed charges that the stinginess of Her Majesty's Government is an outrage and the recent cut of the dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week is a crime. A group of Communist Deputies rushed to the government offices shouting, "We demand to see the Minister of Interior...
Reason for this lavish gift, it is locally explained, is that Louis Philippe was grateful to Bishop Flaget for presenting the Havana purse of 14,000 francs. Most convincing proof of the gift is a bill introduced in Congress in 1824 and again in 1832 asking that Bishop Flaget be exempt from paying duties on "certain paintings and church furniture presented by the then Duke of Orleans, now King of the French, to the Bishop of Bairdstown...