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...Benjamin Ivins, 41-year-old Bishop Coadjutor of Milwaukee ("youngest bishop in the U. S." said: "The work of every form of organization in this land is staggering and faltering. We are rapidly losing the very foundation of our civilization, the home. People are living in holes in the wall; the social graces of the home have become the manners of the restaurant and the public dancing hall...
...Czecho-Slovakia, workmen quarrying glacial silt for a brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...closely bunched in the matter of politics, and this seems to indicate the presence of extraordinary team-play and versatility of attack. Keefer's record is all the more impressive under such conditions, and the rugged halfback is due to cause plenty of worry to the Crimson forward wall today...
...some what reminiscent mood, I do recall incidents which have come close to kindling the spark of revolt in my breast, because, you know, I was 'bawn in Kaintuckee and cawn-fed in Alabamy', and the Mason-Dixon line having always possessed for me the proportions of a veritable wall of China, I was prepared to be intensely critical, vibrantly sensitive, and susceptible to every influence brought to bear on me at Harvard. How faithfully I have fulfilled this vow remains to be seen...
...marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate it thoroughly. Striking as an experiment, his book never gets beyond its starting point...