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...Wilks, vicar of St. John's in Holmfirth, England was startled in his study to hear the bell of his church given one sudden, unwonted Bong...
Naturally, when these people enter college, as they do in ever increasing numbers as the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural, they do not make a sudden metamorphosis and become pious. Nor would they be able to do this if it were required of them. True piety can be won by the individual alone. He must experience deeply much of life, and he must suffer. Since modern living conditions tend to remove the opportunities for meditation and suffering, or at least to postpone such opportunities till after college life, large numbers of students are excusably irreligious...
Suspected cause of the explosion was a sudden giving-away of the boat's 26-year-old boilers, though they had passed official inspection two months before. But also two months ago a local ironworkers' union had complained that the boat was undermanned, overcrowded, unseaworthy. Four separate investigations were launched, while divers grappled for the sunken boilers...
Silk men say that a silk fad sweeps the world about every ten years. Creeping out of the post-War slump, in 1922 the silk industry was whipped to prosperity by a huge and sudden demand for crepe de Chine. It replaced taffeta, which had clung on tenaciously from the billowy era at the turn of the century, as the standard dress silk. When the good news came last month, silk mills had little rough crepe in stock. So great and so urgent was the demand that silk men last week were vainly trying to buy from each other...
THEY do not decide all of a sudden. The blessed event which now delights silk men really began last February when the U. S. style buyers found nothing to excite them at the Paris salons and bitterly said so, threatening never to come back. Oh, please come back next summer! begged Vionnet, Lanvin, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, et al., and promised faithfully to have something that would surely start a U. S. fad, a wave of buying under the irresistible pressure of Fashion...