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...Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave it the finest new plant in the city. Socialite Julian Starkweather Mason was hired as editor to give the sheet circulation. But still the Post did not fatten and thrive. Lately it has been losing money at the rate of $25,000 per week. When the experiment of making it a tabloid last September failed Publisher Martin could think of only one more thing. By last fortnight, all New York knew that the Post would presently be sold or scrapped...
Within little more than a week, the final lecture will have been delivered in most of the upperclass courses. A majority of the undergraduates, after the Christmas vacation, will begin a diligent search for lecture notes, either among their friends or among the numerous tutoring agencies which thrive just outside the gates of the Yard. It is not only those who have spent the fall in riotous living who will be engaged in this prevalent mid-year sport, but all those who have cut lectures freely and all those to whom extensive note-taking is a distraction from lectures...
...advocating radical steps which a coalition of their opponents can defeat, or pursuing a moderate, compromise policy to win the support of the Liberals. If they choose the latter, the result may be the same as in Germany; the Fascist party demanding drastic quick action will thrive and grow fat on the "gradualism" of the government...
Last week at Evanston, Ill. died another hero in stomach annals: Ajax, 9, a dog whose stomach Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy cut out six years ago to demonstrate that in necessity a person could thrive without that apparatus...
...expedition a success when he came back alive with a single trophy: a musk-ox head. Grimly faithful diarist, no matter how frost-bitten or near-delirious with tropical fever, he seldom missed recording his daily tale. Fond of good living when he could get it, he learned to thrive on savage fare. Few things turned his stomach. Once in Africa, stooping to drink from a shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak...