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...After nearly ten years of labor-by about 500 contributors under the stern supervision of London Music Critic and Scholar Eric Blom-Grove V is out at last. Almost twice as big as the 1940 edition, it runs to a weighty nine volumes (at $127.50 a set) that fascinatingly reflect the world of music in mid-20th century...
Such a message, particularly the upbeat ending, would accurately reflect Canada's year-end mood. Earlier in the year, the nation's confidence was shaken by forebodings of depression. Unemployment was on the increase; industrial wage scales began to dip. Western Canada's wheat crop was the poorest in 17 years; retail business fell off. The gross national product, the handiest yardstick for measuring economic progress, appeared to be headed sharply downward...
...times when baby is "off his feed," Dr. Lawson saw nothing to worry about in most cases: "The prescription of tonics and elaborate vitamin mixtures serves only as a crutch and evades the real issue. Usually, these incidents reflect the mother's anxiety more than anything wrong with the child...
...listed on the Exchange clearly comprise a major part of the miracle of industrial America. And for the shares of these companies the New York Stock Exchange provides a fair, efficient and honest marketplace where the public can buy and sell securities at the fairest prices available--prices which reflect the public's offers to sell and bids to buy. The Exchange truly stands at the heart of the American free enterprise system. And its future is inextricably linked with the future growth and prosperity of our economy...
...surprising that the weakest of Wilde's works are those that reflect what he himself considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...