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When a child, lying awake, thinks he sees a horrifying shape in the cor- ner, or hears all night long in the dark and rain a man go riding by, the direct cause of his fear is always slight. Light huddles the darkness in a queer way, or someone has told him a story about highwaymen. It is only the trick of associating a slight concrete thing with a vast intangible one that makes such fear formidable. The fears of children invariably depend on this sort of confused association, Dr. Watson's experiments have shown...
...Steel Corporation price-fixing practice. The Corporation's policy is to sell plates, shapes and bars on a delivered basis, irrespective of the place of manufacture, and values them all as if they were manufactured at Pitts- burgh. This uniform valuation forms the Pittsburgh base price. The Cor- poration does not sell at the base-price. It quotes prices to which have been added the freight rate from Pittsburgh to the point of consumption. This is "Pittsburgh Plus." The mill delivering an order invoices its customer at "Pittsburgh Plus," minus the actual freight to the point of consumption...
...Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...
...were managing affairs. He had a remarkable faculty of making friends and inspiring public men with that kind of confidence which leads them to give good interviews. In 1916 'he returned to America and tried to be Treasurer of The New York Times, but the cor- respondent-business, the desire to be where things were going on, was in his blood. In May, 1917, he sailed for Europe on the Baltic, with General Pershing. He had a commission as correspondent for the Times, which after a bit was made a roving commission. He wandered over Europe cultivating friends...
...complete copy of Mr. Saslawsky's program follows: Ah. Mio Cor Handel Come and Trip it Handel The Plague of Love Dr. Arne So Sweete is Shee, Old English, arr. by William Fisher The Praise of Islay, Old Scotch, arr. by Fritz Kreisler Der Wanderer Schubert Seven Ditchterliebe Schumann Die Mainachi Brahms La Caravan Chausson Claire de Lune Faure Villanelle dos petits canards Chabrier Wiegenlied Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Poem of Musse Rachmaninoff The Steppe Gretchaninoff...