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Granting all this, there still remains the problem of the Seniors who supposedly live, eat, dance, exercise, and carry on their several activities in seven separate units; and then must select their class officers at large as if they were the compact graduating class of some small college. There is no question but that this is unavoidable in such offices as marshal, ivy orator, chorister, orator, odist, and poet. But on the other hand, there is no reason why the members of the various committees should not be chosen with one man elected by each House, especially with regard...
...conceived by a poet, who brings to prose, unconsciously perhaps, his lyric sensitiveness and intensity, is more than sufficient justification for this statement. it is a book that has elements of romanticism, realism, and humor, a combination as happy as it is rare in our time. it has a compact, simple, strong form; and a philosophic idea as its basis that ought to satisfy Mr. T. S. Eliot. On the other hand, avoiding the Joycian method of presenting every detail no matter how irrelevant, a practice apt to be boring, Mr. Hillyer achieves an impression of the fullness of life...
...Manhattan skyscraper. There last week, about to pop with excitement, he pored over galley proofs of a book he has written, to be published next month. It is called Be A News Photographer* The book is based on Author Price's theory that, with the new types of compact, lightweight, high-speed cameras, every reporter may now be his own photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira...
...Compact, kinetic, quick-spoken, the new Secretary of Commerce is a typical high-pressure salesman, called to Washington to sell U. S. business the idea of economic recovery. Most Cabinet officers, including Mr. Lamont, have lapsed into cautious silence after.being badly burned by fruitless predictions of rapidly returning prosperity. Undaunted by their experience, Mr. Chapin last week began his job even before he took office by rushing into print with a splurge of economic good cheer.* To spellbound newshawks he ejaculated...
...compact little Curtiss fighter, "the smallest plane which could be built around a 420-hp. Whirlwind," one of five built for the Navy for installation within the airship Akron...