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...military victory and to consider the role of philosophy as a basis for national morale. Professor Brinton will uphold the point of view that labor, management and government have still further specific sacrifices ahead which each must make before the war can finally be won, while Matters, representing the viewpoint of a person of military age who is not yet in the Army, will spend some time discussing what young people of high school age can do to help in the war effort...
Professor Sherman changed his mind in Modern Bread from the Viewpoint of Nutrition (MacMillan; $1.75), a 100-page book written together with Constance S. Pearson. But he claims that it is not he, but bread, that has recently changed. Modern bread, he says, made with plenty of milk and without removing the wheat germ from the flour, is very different from white bread. It is so different that white bread should have a different name, probably should not be called bread...
...temptation to interest Dean Colman in Grant's case becomes overwhelming after the professor rents Miss Arthur's home for the summer: Grant is hiding out there. Colman takes him for Joseph, the gardener. But Grant's unhorticultural viewpoint staggers Colman's legal mind. When Colman asks: "How are the zinnias getting along, Joseph?" Grant replies: "They're dying...
Whatever British cinemaudiences may think of Director Cummins' editorial viewpoint, bursts of applause, snorts of approval, murmurs of "Good show!" (the British equivalent of a rebel yell), indicate that they like his shorts...
...church members crowded into the church. The photographers poised their flashlight bulbs. The parson's wife stepped to an oil lamp and held the mortgage contract over the chimney. In less than a minute, one of the tidiest church mortgages in the country (from a banker's viewpoint) was a crisp char of expensive ashes. The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles was free of debt, and the banks and other mortgagors owned $750,000 less of the more than $500,000,000 they now hold in U.S. church mortgages...