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...proposed world school of law would attract young men from all countries in the world to study legal systems other than their own, interchanging information and ideas, which Dean Griswold predicted, would by-pass international difficulties growing from ignorance or misunderstanding...
...several of the poorer items in this sixth issue of "Wake" were not so blatantly characteristic of a certain persistent type of writing, I would by-pass them entirely in favor of the better pieces, which comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse's "Selection: The Peripateties," typical of that irritating sort of writing that requires the reader to approach it as if it were a puzzle, continue to appear in magazine after magazine, there is good reason to offer a hesitant objection. I say hesitant, because baffled as surely...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
Members of the Marshall Plan Committee will "stick by their program" but withheld, pending a meeting today, official comment on their position should E.R.P. by-pass...
...stands, thanks to a new technique in printing and, chiefly, to its sponsor, Manhattan's small (total assets: $800,000) Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. Its Vari-Typer machines, glorified typewriters which automatically set straight right-hand margins, were being used by most of the strikebound papers to by-pass the linotypers. The biggest fault that readers found with the papers was that they looked like a stenographer's work...