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...Valera, again a wholehearted Republican, sees no change. He wants only "external association" with the Commonwealth (and not a membership within it) that will not bind Ireland to a King who never even visits the Free State. The difference is difficult to explain, but is best summed up by contrasting "external association" with internal association, and the seeming impossibility of having a republic in the monarchical Commonwealth...
Responding to an interpellation in the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier rapped out: "I do not propose ratification of the [Franco-British and Franco-U. S.] debt-funding accords, because I expect to get better terms; and because Parliament certainly would not agree to bind the country for the proposed term of 62 years...
...expect or ask the Freshman class alone to insure a University dining hall. In the first place many of the first year men look forward to election to clubs in the fall and others entertain vaguer hopes. It is too much to expect men in this situation to bind themselves to a club table even for a half year. In the second place it is merely aphoristic to remark that before there can be a want there must be a lack. Freshmen are still being fed regularly and adequately and like the grasshoppers are likely to enjoy the present season...
There are two probable reasons for the failure of the Union plan: those eating there feel no necessity to bind themselves to certain tables, since under present conditions they are at liberty to sit where and with whom they choose and consequently by this time of the year, the same groups have formed communal habits which have proved satisfactory; secondly, there is a decided hesitancy about spontaneously offering to become a part of a system as unfamiliar as the University dining hall is to the present undergraduate...
Some people prefer union suits because no shirt crawls up the back in warm weather. Others prefer two-piece suits because these do not bind at the crotch. Both types were good customers for knit underwear makers who, in 1925, sold 11.500,387 dozen union suits, 11,261,521 dozen shirts and drawers. Total value was $163,276,772. Pennsylvania has 114 of the 298 factories...