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...side, tearful Finns quoted an old Nordic saying: "Sorrows are our reins, bad days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating back & forth of the shuttlecock of blame...
...Passenger to Bali (by Ellis St. Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
...search of anthropological and ethnological data about the Negro peoples of the Pacific Ocean, Douglas L. Oliver '34, Itesearch Associate in Anthropology, and his wife spent almost two years in the volcanic jungle island of Bougainville, a British mandate in the Soloman Islands...
...function of the Placement Office is to bring together students seeking business employment and employers seeking graduating students. One phase of this activity is scheduling interviews for students with representatives sent to the College by the large national corporations. These companies are frankly in search of outstanding men and to find twenty trainees may visit twenty or more colleges. Such a company recruiting at Harvard may interview thirty men and hire only two. It is true, under these circumstances, that the "upper tenth" stand the best chance of employment...
...time they had hit him with applications for some 2,000 suites. Laying out $15,000 to clean up the island, build shacks and a recreation hall, Mr. Washburn, a quiet, thin man with brown eyes, greying hair and the demeanor of a deacon, set out in search of a king & queen for Hog Island, rechristened Honeymoon Isle...