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...than the benefits would compensate for), felt that the lines "had been saved from the consequences of a mistake." Professor Ripley foresaw "a distinct betterment of outlook for the future." Others thought otherwise. Liberal Walter Lippmann colyumed in the New York Herald Tribune: "The Commission has evidently tried to select particular commodities, which either have not fallen in price as much as others or are so bulky and necessary that they have to be carried on railroads anyway. From the shippers of these selected goods it hopes to extract about $125,000,000. . . . The proposal is a kind of emergency...
...great extent this charge is true. In some cases men are able to select three quarters of their courses from those open to freshmen and sophomores. In colleges that do not have a system of concentration that requires divisional or senior examinations for a degree, this is easily possible. The lowering of college standards is due to the pressure of secondary schools, who have always insisted that restrictions have been too high, but this relaxation has worked out badly for those students who wish to continue with graduate work...
There were articles on funeral prices, cut-rate practices, arrangement of the casket display room so that the prospect will not always select the cheap ones. Only once was the delicate (to the undertaker) subject of cremation mentioned; thus...
...Hollywood. The Road to Singapore can best be regarded as a testimonial to the merits of a less acquisitive policy. It is possibly William Powell's worst picture and far below the standard which Warner Bros, have announced their intention to maintain by adopting a smaller and more select production schedule (TIME, Sept. 20). Powell, identified with less lush impersonations at Paramount, seems vapid by contrast in this picture although his mannerisms are less noxious than those of Basil Rathbone, who played the role on the stage. Doris Kenyon, who is now no older in appearance than when...
...yielding what she so deeply needed ; and if it fell to an inordinate memory thus at the beginning sometimes to wound her with abnormal revisionings, it was to become the office of an equally inordinate imagination in the end to turn them, in restitution, to another account ? to select, to reshape, to interpret every adaptable passage in the history of her house, first to foster an extraordinary wish, and at last to sustain a strange unearthly hope...