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...uncle learned this trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants to test his skill sometime when banana fish are out of season...
...committee recommended no specific legislation, but it did recommend a business policy: profit-sharing by which workers can share in the thumping harvests of fat years, pile up a competence against old age. (For a company which uses such methods...
...adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt pardoned him) ; now his planacea put members on a piping political pan. Bob Doughton & Co. hastened next day to vote, in Committee, to recommend raising from $15 to $20 the maximum monthly handout by the Treasury to oldsters whose States pension them...
Scouts for the scouts are college baseball coaches. Some coaches are on the payroll of big-league clubs, some get commissions when players they recommend are signed up. Because their salaries are small (about one-sixth that of college football coaches) the practice of scouting is a welcome perquisite for baseball coaches, keeps many of them at a job hey otherwise might quit...
...course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling not only modern sculpture and painting but architecture, industrial art, cinema, photography and whatever music and literature came in handy. Its purpose: "to equip people to face contemporary civilization." This course led Professor Sachs to recommend him to Mr. Goodyear. It was the subject matter of this course, in a new incarnation, which visitors last week saw displayed in the Museum of Modern...