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...London police promptly arrested the bookseller and confiscated all available copies of this volume. Year later Frank A. Davis of Philadelphia, as a personal favor to Dr. Ellis, began printing his Studies, which eventually ran to seven volumes and retailed for $30 per set. Mr. Davis was very strict about selling only to the professions. Since the War, however, there has been such a great change in the U. S. attitude toward sex that Bennett A. Cerf, head of Manhattan's Random House, felt safe in bringing out this week a new four-volume edition of Studies...
...From myself to the lowest soldier in my army, we are all ready to fight desperately. Every service has been fully prepared-food, water, munitions, animals and men-to give a smashing blow, a blow that you can follow with your own eyes. BUT, in return, you must observe strict discipline, you must consider yourselves my own soldiers. Not one word of all this is to be written until the battle ends." Right in front of the Marshal's headquarters stood the powerful Zeiss telescope, formidable as a cannon, that goat-bearded Marshal de Bono had brought to Africa...
...with one of the best layouts for daytime sport and moon-drenched romantic evenings in Latin America, "Father Snare" still busies himself with earnest works appropriate to one who last week celebrated his Silver Jubilee. Few caddies are so pious as his. Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd birthday he drove for the 18th hole, needing a five to make...
...Varsity Boat crew came up early this term and are now in strict training in preparation for their annual race against Oxford, which is one of the big events of the British sporting year...
...little manual on modern Russian literature, published about ten years ago, Prince D. H. Misky describes Solovyev as "the greatest name in Russian Philosophy . . . he was the first Russian to combine strict religious orthodoxy with a political liberalism of a European type." At least two other works of Solovyev's have been translated into English: "The Justification of the Good" and "Three Conservations on War, Peace, and the End of History," but the present translation of his essay on Plato, which by the way has been done completely by Richard Gill, will introduce the philosopher to the English-speaking public...