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Author Spencer writes violently, too often as one beating the air. Metaphors meant to be mighty come out merely mixed: "Soon the sun would be lost to sight, dragging its garden of colours behind it. Then the black clouds would cool away or sink like heavy anchors, and with the downing of the gaudy light, the sky would be peppered with blinking stars, gasping for life, weak from the tumult of the sun's going." Her violent story...
...within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly when they sink, none has ever drowned. There are not more than a few thousand athletes in the U.S. capable of playing the game. There are 24 teams in New York, 18 in Philadelphia, cities where the game is particularly popular. Next to the New York Athletic Club, Eastern College teams are usually...
Housewives will like the kitchen, a rectangular room free of sharp projections, handles, gadgets. Down one side runs a Monel-Metal topped counter in which is set the stove (gas or electric), the refrigerator, the sink. Above the counter are enameled metal cabinets stored with canned and packaged goods which come with the house. "We want you to have two days' food when you move in." says the company. Next to the kitchen, neatly embedded in a thick column, are the furnace (coal, gas, oil or electric), the plumbing inlets and outlets, the air-conditioner...
Caldwell's Hog Wallow Sirs: . . . Erskine Caldwell is seizing upon an isolated instance or two of injustice to tenant farmers by Jefferson County landowners to paint the county as a sink of iniquity. As a damyankee of many generations standing, I cannot be accused of rushing to the defense of my native State. But by profession trained to accurate observation and impartial reporting, and speaking from six years' intimate familiarity with Jefferson County, I can say that a more contemptible libel has never been uttered about any community...
Still more painful is another aspect of the Dartmouth murals. The recklessness that allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never occured to university officials that perhaps they would some day want to tear down the library to make way for a large power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive...