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...Episodes such as those which have marked the course of stock prices and so-called Wall Street sentiment . . . constitute a generally harmful nuisance. They also constitute a reflection on the steadfastness and sobriety of a portion of the community. . . . The only circumstances under which, in a country with the resources, the resiliency and the basic elements of ours, a temporary descent into the cyclone cellar becomes warranted are-leaving aside grave foreign complications- either manifestations of stark and persistent overproduction or overtrading, the advent of a major credit disturbance, or acute monetary stringency. None of these circumstances exists today...
...clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...corner of 14th and F Streets, Washington, there stood, early in the week, a low wall of bricks somewhat jagged at one end President Coolidge approached, took a trowel and spread some additional plaster with difficulty. "It won't spread well", he remarked with a trace of annoyance. Then he stood back to survey the cornerstone he had laid, put aside the silver trowel...
...nevertheless sends out persistent propaganda of their faith. Last week they announced in their chief periodical, The New-Church Messenger, an appeal for $100,000 to make facile a reprinting of their master's works?32 volumes. Clarence Walker Barron, editor of Barren's Financial Weekly and of the Wall Street Journal, heads the funds committee, promised to get $50,000 himself, urged other church members to contribute another...
...used for a deployment of academic energy along general lines, that the junior and senior year should be employed in more concentrated effort on a particular field has long been a pragmatic fact here. And his outline of a method of instruction might well be pasted on the wall of any unregenerate tutee who believes himself cramped by the constraining and confining influence of tutorial work. It reads, in part, as follows. "In teaching method the new college would attempt a radical departure from present procedures. It would largely eliminate the lecture as a form of instruction and would subordinate...