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...drug laws, thefts and embezzlements by clerks and accountants, stock frauds, political chicanery of all sorts, fee-splitting by doctors. This top-drawer malfeasance does not reach the courts nearly so often as the murders, assaults, robberies, sex offenses and drunkenness of lower-class criminals, and so receives scant attention from criminologists...
Nazis said the offer was "a very nice gesture" befitting Dutch and Belgian neutrality but that it has scant possibility of success...
Paced by Iron-man Hall Wonson, the Green's ace distance runner, the Dartmouth contingent includes Lee Trudean, who took seventh place in last year's race; Williams, a sophomore who took first honors in the Freshman event last fall; Bull, who trailed Williams by a scant second; and Foss and Gibbons...
...that clear thinking is not promoted by hysterical inhibitions against the thought of war. Behind the British navy we feel secure from material attack, but only when the Nazi gangsters are checked without profit, can we lay the menace of their poisonous ideology. Meanwhile the rising generation gives scant evidence of readiness to assume America's fair share in the defense of our civilization. Even those exposed to education incline to turn from the leadership appearing in the university world and take up the chant of the politicians: Be selfish. Be short sighted. Be cowardly. Be American...
Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...