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...than 40 percent of the University, will be a relatively carefree soul--after he is moved from his public berth in the Indoor Athletic Building, after he is told that he doesn't have to commute if he doesn't want to, and even though he may have to sweat out a breakfast chow line...
...huge wealth of the country is in the hands of a small bunch of millionaires who are the heads of capitalist industrial trusts-steel, oil, copper, etc. The millionaires lead luxurious lives and sweat the workers as hard as they can. A working day lasts nine to ten hours. ... At the age of 45 a worker loses his health and becomes...
...room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood...
...recovered memories dovetailed with another record: a whopping $1,102,000,000 in extra taxes and penalties collected from taxpayers who had tried to short-change the Government and had got caught at it. Most of the 111,000 on the honesty rolls had merely broken out in uneasy sweat and had kicked in voluntarily to avoid trouble. The sorry fact: never before had so many taxpayers tried to cheat in such...
...Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...