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...acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins and to study, with the utmost care, the details of their likenesses or their dissimilarities. A similar research has been announced by the University of Chicago...
Lacking these two essentials, companionate marriage must be technically regarded as a form of courtship. Nor does this detract from its possible value. Sexual experience in courtship is looked upon by many modern moralists with the utmost disapproval; even "necking," they think, is disgraceful. Other moralists have defended premarital sexual experience of a more or less complete nature. More primitive people, in various ways, have practiced it. Recent "puritanical" criticism of companionate marriage has stimulated interest in a strange pastime, widely practiced among the early inhabitants of New England and known...
Humble Oil & Refining Co.-$7,100,000. Previous year: $19,385,000. Difference was attributed to overproduction of crude oil. Of 1928 said President W. S. Parish: "Any measure of prosperity that comes to the industry this year must come through the utmost caution and conservatism on the part of each individual unit of the industry, large or small. We must temper our effortis to produce crude, and as refiners we jmust not overproduce our markets for gasoline...
...exist where such biases count for less than in some of the great universities of our time. Whatever be your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care to claim either, I hope that you will find here a welcome which will encourage you to pursue learning with the utmost freedom. We have a habit of dividing the members of the University into two classes, professors and students, but I often find myself dissatisfied with such a classification. It draws a very misleading distinction between our members, for I am sure you will find that most...
...Words of apology fail me for having sunk His Majesty's submarine N. 6. My subordinates are killed by my fault, but it is with pride that I inform you that the crew to a man have discharged their duties as sailors and with the utmost coolness until their dying moments...