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When a man murders his wife to get her money, the crime may be labelled 'social pathology'," Hooton remarked. "But if a man takes an axe and chops Iris wife and all of his children into bits, he is commonly adjudged to be crazy or mentally deficient." The same definitions might well be applied to national states as well, he suggests...
...sake of amateurism. There seems to be no reasonable objection from the undergraduate body to radioing the ball games on the large networks. Further-more, innumerable Alumni all over the country would like to tune in on those Harlow spinners and end sweeps. And so with the budget axe falling nearer the sports-lovers' heads, next fall's fans ask the responsible men or man to break the news...
...this could have been avoided with a little preparation. But the sloppiness did not end here. The cut-offs at the ends of records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle of a phrase (the effect is as though the soundtrack has been chopped off with an axe), while on at least three sides there is an entire half-inch of waste space at the beginning, during which the needle scrape-scrapes around, and the listener forgets what was happening at the end of the last side. All this without mentioning defects in the performance, such as Koussevitzky...
...faced with the tenure problem. Its imminence was graphically brought home to him when his friend Whit lost his position. But Oliver refused to engage in apple-polishing in order to keep his own job, and he could only hope that his teaching and book-reviewing would prevent the axe from falling on him. Oliver had domestic as well as academic problems, moreover, for his daughter Carol revolted against the conventional manner in which Oliver and his wife had been bringing...
TIME'S index was formulated and prepared in consultation with the editors by E. W. Axe & Co. Inc., well-known statistical and investment advisory firm, which assembles up-to-date data in more than 2,500 different statistical fields. These range from a monthly series on business activity in Japan to weekly series on call money rates, stockmarket averages and the price of hides. From this vast statistical storehouse, TIME will select each week or so whichever chart is of special interest in the light of the week's news. This week, for example, TIME prints (in addition...