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...accruing from the famed children's poet's works. In 1921. after fire damaged her house, she moved north to Heafford Junction, Wis., where she paid $60,000 for 155 woodsy acres with a barn, five cottages, a boxlike house of cement blocks overlooking Crystal Lake. To augment her income as royalties dwindled, she rented the land to farmers, the cottages to tourists. Pinched by Depression, she had to take out a mortgage, planned to pay it off with a $3,000 Home Owners Loan. Last week the loan was refused, her mortgage foreclosed. Given three days...
...Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), where he disagreed with Lee's generalship, he became outspokenly critical of his commander. He also thought little of Stonewall Jackson. Itching for an independent command, Longstreet seized the opportunity, when he was given the Department of Southern Virginia and North Carolina, to augment his army at the expense of Lee's. Ordered to rejoin Lee before the Battle of Chancellorsville, he moved so slowly that he missed the fighting by days...
Premature publication of embryonic theorics, so ably exposed and satirized in Sinclair Lewis's "Arrowsmith", needs to further declamation. Likewise, the restricted field of Dr. Rothney's experiment in no way justifies his broad conclusion. In his haste to augment educational knowledge, he has forgotten the classic warning to those who would prove their point by logical argment, that "because a cow is an animal, it does not follow that all animals are cows...
...indication that there still exists a belief that papers are graded in such unorthodox methods as the stairway system. Such a desire might even be attributed to a craving for knowledge, the interest of the eager scholar to know wherein he has erred, to profit by his mistakes and augment his fund of information even after examinations...
...generation." Usually the requests are for speakers on current problems but frequently we are asked to provide travel talks, or talks on religion. Last year one man was registered to speak on the "Breeding and Care of Snakes." This year we plan to continue our usual program, but to augment it by providing cooperation between the Speakers Committee and the Social Service Committee...