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...till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books of verse (Wild Apples and Selected Poems; TIME, Nov. 27, 1933) which indicated that his Joycean counterpart was merely a portrait of the doctor as a young man; this week he published a work long in progress that showed him an unmistakably three-dimensional figure, as live as a high-tension line, as individual as an Irishman...
...competition open to seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing in Harvard College, to be decided by finalists in an annual contest. Tonight, well over a century later, ten Harvard undergraduate finalists will do verbal battle in the Music Building for these prizes, and for their more recent counterpart, the Lee Wade Prize, founded...
...claim by the simple expedient of ignoring the incalculable amounts of short-term tax-anticipation certificates, "labor creation bills," and similar inflationary paper it has pumped into the credit system. According to the Reich, this paper is not debt until it becomes due, a contention which would have a counterpart in the U. S. if WPA workers were paid in baby Government Bonds which were excluded from the national debt until they matured. SEC pointed out that by the middle of 1935 this odd accounting conception had swollen the total Reich debt by at least $2,000,000,000 above...
...School's example of direct action should find its counterpart in the national sphere in the form of a proposal to determine the status of judicial review by constitutional amendment. From the Administration's viewpoint, there could be no more propitious time to carry out their reform constitutionally by amendment. Sticking by the letter of the law and not the spirit, as President Roosevelt expects to do through a sly application of his appointive power, is obviously as great a crime as any judgment the Supreme Court could possibly hand down. The crowning example of irony, however, rests...
...among the local peasants. A Mexican peasant, once established on such land, is by no means sure that he will not be visited by a landlord's lynching party who may cut off his ears and throw them in his face. Incidents of this kind have their counterpart in irate bands of the newly-landed Mexican peasantry who burst in upon the gentry and do many a mischief. However, under strong President Cardenas, Mexicans are less & less cutting off each other's ears...