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...nation as such, rather than the people as individuals; only later will they feel the result of inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis is "scarcely less vital," said he, than the dire days when the Nazis rained bombs over London...
...most active of all is Exposition Press, a Manhattan publishing house which issued 203 books last year, ranked sixth among U.S. publishers in number of new titles. None of its books sold widely, but Exposition's authors got a better shake than the history of vanity publishing gave them a right to expect...
Harvard's House plan will come of age next September and shake under-graduate life into a new pattern. No longer will students in trouble be called to University Hall and then plead their case to a Dean they may never have seen before; no longer will honors candidates monopolize the fruits of tutorial. With the appointment by the Board of Overseers this morning of Lowell and Leverett's Allston Burr Senior Tutors. President Lowell's dream, seems practically realized. The College has taken two steps--decentralization of the Dean's Office and revival of tutorial for all concentrators...
...slow-talking, easy-going man from Montana thinks the party is fine. Robert Burns, who raises sheep and cattle on three ranches out West, drove in through the year's hottest days to shake hands and sip cocktails...
Meanwhile, the Crimson sought vainly to shake Beresford. The visitors got a hit in each of the first four innings, but were unable to advance a man past second. Two double plays helped Beresford considerably...