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Under the new plan, upperclassmen as well as Freshmen will be required to take some form of exercise a certain number of times a week. It will probably necessitate a large expansion of the present intramural system in order to absorb the increased number of students taking part in athletics...
...President was naturally concerned at the possibility of Lewis and Hutcheson, both isolationists, both Republicans, getting control of a labor movement of some 10,000,000 (claimed) members. Moreover, the President could well understand, as Mr. Murray pointed out, that peace negotiations at this point might absorb a lot of time and energy that labor should be expending on the war effort. Something had to be done, quickly. Mr. Roosevelt sent for Murray...
Theory Needed. All these applications still absorb only bucketfuls of the oceans of waste lignin pouring out of U.S. paper mills every day. Big reason for the slowness of lignin utilization is that, in spite of more than 60 years of research by scores of chemists, nobody has yet precisely determined its structure-what atoms in what pattern form its molecule. But when the theory is cleared up, useful applications will follow thick & fast. Reason: chemists will know what they are working with and can abandon the essentially trial-&-error methods now forced upon them. Chief center of molecular lignin...
...descriptive passages; it fails generally to get anything across, for psychological drama is fostered by change and development in the characters and mood which here remain static. The motivating secrets with which the men enter upon the scene are still secrets when they leave, and the reader refuses to absorb the mood when he cannot understand its source. This morbid flavor of the 'twenties, without the disillusioned bitterness toward mankind which produced it, is meaningless...
...same policy is in effect regarding the industry's defense work, in spite of the fact that most companies lack enough assignments to absorb the men and facilities that are being released by curtailment of automobile production. Analysis of 104 random defense contracts in the industry shows 45% of the dollar value being let out in the form of subcontracts...