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...poll of the 22 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee indicated a scant plurality of five for Senator Pittman's plan to rewrite the law (part of which expires May 1) on a strict cash & carry basis, permitting sales of any U. S. goods to all comers provided they pay in the U. S., transport in their own bottoms...
Meraud, named doubtless by exotic derivation from émeraude (emerald), took after her mother in an eccentric love of painting. She learned to draw accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That...
...according to the strict amateur rules of the Eastern Rugby Association, the Harvard Rugby Club is in no way connected with the H. A. A. The players are recruited from Freshmen as well as post-graduates. Team rules forbid salaried coaches and substitutions during a game...
...might be well, in the second place, to find a means of forcing each Master to accept the given criteria. The Central Committee should require strict observance of the cross-section--intellectual, social, racial, and financial. Although this is at the present time fairly closely approximated, there are a few striking deviations, and one House in particular has violated the spirit of the crosssection. Much can be said for the development of House individuality and character, but this can be fostered on the basis of a cross-section as well as on that of a clique...
...bigger area (150,000 sq. mi.), bigger standing Army (285,000) than Czecho-Slovakia was too big a nation to let fall into Germany's hands. So fortnight ago the British Government hastily offered a watery anti-aggression pact, but the hard-boiled Polish Government insisted on strict military guarantees with no ifs, ands or buts...