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...called, the "French Steel Trust." It is not a cartel. Individual French iron and steel companies are bound together by rigid agreements covering quotas and prices in to great groups like the Comptoir Siderurgique de France or into lesser ones like the Comptoir des Rails or the Comptoir des Demi-Products. The Comite cannot be said to "combine" these organizations; in actually, however, it remains the most powerful iron and steel organization in France. It does not sell; it does not produce. Its activities are more subtle, more delicate than that. Essentially its field is in strategy and tactics...
...includes in its scope three large, accurate tower-clocks; (4) To live in them is to live as in a club--a floor below are ping-pong tables, library, and for the Merrimaniacs a History Reading Room. Two floors below are dining room, radio, fireplace, magazines, newspapers, piano, and demi-tasses. Three floors down are barber shop and pool room. (To be sure, these facilities are open to all Freshmen, but we alone are constantly within banister distance of them. Who but us can sleep till 8.28 A.M. and still reach our orange-juice before the grim-faced guardian...
...Illusion" is very much a member of the school he describes. He is an individualist and an intellectual; something of a philosopher, a rationalist, while still an incurable romantic. At times he spoils his impression by unrestrained, uncritical enthusiasms; and he is throughout perhaps too trusting of his demi-gods. But the book pictures a phase of life, of bohemianism, that has never existed before and may never exist again with a certain brilliance and much understanding...
...jolt which sent tutors, students, and janitors into a frenzied hunt. For the "rabbit which is Leverett House" was carried off by force. The matter has been placed into the efficient hands of the Metropolitan Police, but little hope is felt for the return of this mascot and demi-god revered by every staunch heart in the House...
...liked the commodious living rooms in every house, and we liked the way every one congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...