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...comprehensive knowledge of the student's field is being instilled far less painfully than by the old method of lectures followed by examinations. Soon, in all probability, the tutoring school in college towns will have become a part of tradition only, along with turtle-necked sweaters, the campus pump, and the banners of rival institutions pinned upside down on the wall. New York Herald Tribune...
...Public savings curtailed private spendings. Even the psychological advantage of a balanced budget failed to offset this downward trend. Last week, however, the President's larger program became more clear. The budget was to be balanced so that the Government could borrow fresh billions and thereby prime the pump of U. S. business! Credit inflation on a colossal scale loomed ahead. Only if it failed to produce results would the White House lend an ear to the moonlit baying for currency inflation...
...issued by a corporation launched & christened only three weeks ago; the Istituto Ricostruzione Industriale. On the one hand I. R. I. will avowedly "pump oxygen" (i. e. credit) into worthy industries, much as does Washington's R. F. C. On the other hand, Rome's I. R. I. will further the State's liquidation of non-self-supporting industries, "pruning" them out of Italian industrial life...
...others, the next Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; American Car & Foundry's William Hartman Woodin whom some dopesters put into the Treasury; the "brain trust," Professors Moley & Tugwell. Also aboard was Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, who took President Wilson's stomach pump ; way and made him exercise, to discuss the inauguration plans...
...flexible flask. Sculptor Lenz added a principle long used in dentistry, never before in sculpture. A vacuum pump is attached to the mold. Instead of pouring the metal in, it is sucked strongly into the finest grooves. At the same time air pressure causes