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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obeying Joseph Stalin's orders to collectivize the Russian peasantry by any ruthless means, he brought them up short with his famed statement in the Soviet press in March 1930 entitled "Dizzy From Success." This has since become a method by which the Dictator enables others to bear the blame for his total or partial failures. Last week Stalin was in the sunny Caucasus and rumors that he is suffering from hardening of the cardiac artery were reported in several European newspapers. Meanwhile his Russian henchmen were again definitely "Dizzy From Success...
...aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with him, and under his tutelage and encouragement pursued the researches that eventually flowered in Freudian psychoanalysis...
Said faithful Nephew Willett: "Mr. Durant is just as enthusiastic over building up the Food Market as he ever was over automobiles. In fact he no longer can bear the thought of an automobile...
...Indifference" is a word no longer able to bear the strain put upon it, but the Harvard man's lack of interest in the foibles of his neighbors is traditional and accurate. As there is no uniformity in manners, so there is no catholicity in taste. If a Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should...
...Sundry other subscriptions of under $5,000.00 each 3,905.00 Total specifically for the support of University Professorships $523,696.37 (3) Specifically for Harvard National Scholarships: Anonymous $200,000.00 Friends and Family, William L. Boyden '86 21,000.00 Anonymous, for a Harvard National Scholarship "to bear the name of John Lowell Gardner" 25,000.00 Anonymous--a graduate formerly residing on the Pacific Coast, now in business in New York City 5,675.00 Mrs. George Chase Christian, for the "George Chase Christian Memorial Scholarships" for students from Minnesota, preferably in the graduate schools 50,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Clark...