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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Manning's last point was demonstrably true. Last fortnight the ''Protestant-minded" Churchman suggested that attacks upon the Concordat may be motivated by a wish to wreck "a pact which would make more difficult the Romanization of the Anglican communion." The "Catholic-minded" Living Church has been critical ever since, last summer, it heard that grape juice had been used at communion at a unity conference in Berkeley, Calif.-in the diocese of liberal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, chairman of the Concordat commission...
Tubes for launching the rockets, not having to withstand much pressure, would be light and cheap (costing less than 1% of equivalent cannon). These tubes could be carried into mountains and other difficult terrain where big guns cannot go. They could be manufactured in great quantity. "When a fortified position is to be reduced by cannon," declares Major Randolph, "the bombardment often lasts for several days, giving the enemy ample time to bring up reinforcements. With rockets, the whole artillery preparation would probably be shot off at once. . . followed immediately by the attack...
...Economic Research got a fund from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Association of Reserve City Bankers to study instalment credit. It found a red-haired University of Pennsylvania professor named Ralph Young, and a black-haired Hunter College girl named Blanche Bernstein who knew her onions, having plowed through difficult statistical jobs with NRA, WPA, U. S. Department of Labor, etc. These two, with three assistants, were set up in N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them...
...difficult to define precisely the unique excellence of this book. It is primarily a collection of brief essays about the plays and poems, essays which never exceed fifteen pages in length. Mr. Van Doren deliberately excludes considerations of Shakespeare biography, Elizabethan drama and the like; the center of his preoccupation is always the peculiar interest of each play...
...Committee will not find it easy at first to free itself of the difficulties regarding eligibility, something which the respective athletic associations are now able to do if only from long practice. There will be twilight grounds between eligibility and ineligibility which will prove difficult to decide due to inexperience. This, however, is the length to which the three Universities must go to prove their amateur standing...