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Before the War, the late devious Novelist Henry James, encountering Authoress Harris, went so far as not to deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing. His protegee's subsequent literary career has given him cause to turn proudly in his grave. Long a successful journalist (London Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian), Authoress Harris won a $5,000 prize with her first novel, The Seventh Gate. Her second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing...
...recall that when you discontinued your broadcast in February, you suggested that "The March of Time" should be carried on as a sustaining feature by some of the broadcasting companies, and that you did not deem further expenditure along this line justified...
...patients for radium treatment. I have taken as much or more radium water of the same kind Mr. Byers took and I am 51 years old, active and healthy. ... I believe that radium water has a definite place in the treatment of certain diseases and I prescribe when I deem it necessary." He '"knew," he declared, that Byers had died "from a combination of blood diseases which had induced gout...
...guards against any inflationary flood of paper money, the bill also provided that: i) Reserve banks could issue money on direct obligations of the U. S. only when a majority of the Reserve Board "deem it desirable in the public interest"; 2) such bond-backed currency could be issued only within one year from the law's enactment...
...they print the declaration, but both analyzed the case, gave much space to emphasizing its significance. Editorialized The Living Church: "If THIS BE TREASON. . . . We had supposed that it was generally recognized that it is not only our right but our duty to disobey a law which we deem to be immoral and contrary to God's will-and to take the consequences. . . .' Said The Christian Century: "Our readers ... are listening to the almost unanimous voice of the Christian press of the nation. . . The only way in which a spiritual faith can be kept alive in the United...