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When founded in 1925 the Bureau for Street Traffic Research was dedicated to the principle that the street and high-way traffic problem deserves the same type of scientific approach that has been applied to the solution of other major social and economic problems. This objective has never been altered...
Club de Femmes (Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...
...World's Championship Rodeo has no world's championships to offer in calf-roping, steer-wrestling, bronco-riding or any other spectacular event of a rodeo. Nearest approach to such championships are the point scores compiled annually by the Rodeo Association of America (which the Garden rodeos joined last year) on the basis of some 50 rodeos, including the famed contests at Cheyenne, Pendleton, Calgary and Salinas. But the World's Championship Rodeo is champion in one respect, drawing more first-rate performers than any single Western rodeo...
...below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns at its southern approach, with only a four-lane highway on Randolph Street for traffic midcity bound. And some complained of bottlenecks getting off & on the main outer artery north & south. But these were minor matters to a populace which now could save from ten to 20 minutes traveling from one end of the sprawling...
When the Farnsworth Room was opened some twenty-one years ago, it ushered in a brand new approach, so far as the Harvard College Library was concerned, to the problem of supplying the student with books and encouraging him to read them. The prime aim was to put the reader at his case, to "make him feel at home," and to this end the room was comfortably furnished and attractively draped, and red tape was reduced to a minimum. No elaborate card-catalogues or "systems" were employed, and the nucleus of what is now a collection of five thousand volumes...