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...Chrisian Science Monitor is in favor of Prohibition, and for that reason it hates to print anything that would lead a reader to suppose that legislative rulings pleasing to the " drys " are not being received with acclaim the world over...
...Senator Robinson is a democrat, his statement that "no important legislative achievement except bills of a non-partisan nature and except the Fordney-McCumber tariff act can be awarded the Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although a step of great importance, was distinctly of a non-partisan nature, while...
Every year hundreds of lonely students come to the University; yet no adequate means exist to provide for these unfortunates. The Phillips Brooks House has persistently disregarded its opportunity for extending its social service work in this direction,--a step which would be received with great acclaim by members of the University, lonely or not. With such a department a working unit in the University it is easily conceivable that the cry for "one three-minute 'aig'" will give place to the more romantic "one eighteen-year blonde...
...militarism because it is of the proletariat is likewise an inconsistency, for even the anti-Bolshevist Russians hall with joy Russia's return toward her old status as a great power, thus contributing to the national and militaristic feeling. The old and new bourgeoisie and even the former monarchists acclaim Russia's great army as an indication of her revival...
...Makers of Light" is a product straight from Harvard's famous English 47. It had two special performances at the Workshop in Cambridge and was received with acclaim by the specialists there assembled: From the New York Times...