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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become necessary to create collective power, to mobilize technical resources, and to work out technical procedures by means of which the modern state can balance, equalize, neutralize, offset, correct the private judgments of masses of individuals. This is what I mean by a Compensated Economy and the method of free collectivism. . . . If is a conception which is not spun out of abstract theory . . . It is the method of freedom. The authority of the government is used to assist men in maintaining the security of an ordered life. The state, though it is powerful, is not the master of the people...
...confessedly musical, Mr. Ballantine has a sizeable fund of knowledge about other things. When he does state a fact which lies outside his field, it is always annoying to discover that it is correct. Perhaps the final answer to this Professor of Music lies in his environment, The son of a Congregationalist minister and a practical mother, there was no reason to expect his talent. One brother teaches law at the University of California and another struggles with hopeless problems of taxes and finance. The youngest son of such a family is liable to be smothered by such a plethora...
...hundred eighty synchronous motor-driven, self starting electric clocks have been installed in buildings throughout the College. In an institution where thousands of people are meeting engagements every day, it is necessary to have the correct time available. The clock system now used is connected with the time pieces in the central power station which are checked by wireless from the U. S. naval Observatory at Arlington, Virginia and control the alternations of the current through connections to the turbine governors. The accuracy of the large 60-cycle electric networks is thus maintained within 5 seconds plus or minus. Even...
...could not contribute. Nevertheless, the campaign netted $105, provided Caroline Decker with a typewriter, an ample supply of ribbons and paper.-ED. Egg-Sucking Switz Sirs: Re: One-hole Egg Mystery. The skepticism of your correspondent. Mr. William Tarrant Jr. (April 20 is worthy of a Bertillon! He is correct in believing that the great one-hole egg mystery will undoubtedly "make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads," even despite your learned editorial note on how expert zoologists empty eggs with fine silver tubes and air pressure. For it happens that my brother...
Violet Shore was the independent only child of a hard-bitten millionaire who had made his pile in the West and gone to Manhattan to raid the other corsairs. Gareth was one of a family of impoverished but socially correct little exiles who had been brought up to believe that they were all prodigies. Gareth's and Violet's childhood friendship might have developed into marriage, but Gareth had no money. Old Man Shore got his daughter the finest husband money could buy, and she spent the rest of her life making the best of the bargain. When...