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...even believe that in the course of countless ages the two human eyes will come closer and closer together, the bridge of the nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ' man's line of descent, has been doing for aeons of time) and finally that man's two eyes will again become one-just one large, central, cyclopean eye. It is likely that the merely servient (left) eye will shrink away (as the pineal eye has already done) so that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left...
Barometer of Progress. "The destiny of Cuba is in the balance," cried Provisional President de Cespedes last week. "The price of sugar is the barometer of Cuban progress. Without a fair profit Cuba cannot produce sugar and the resources of the Government will diminish." The U.S. sugar stake in Cuba, virtually a one-crop country, can be estimated from the fact that U.S. citizens own through corporate investments nearly 70% of the islands' sugar production. Their sugar bonds, debentures and stocks, bought for some $600,000,000, are worth today less than $50,000,000, and at that...
Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last...
...steel industry's backdown on "company unions" at NRA hearings in Washington did not diminish U. S. Steel's resistance to unionization in the coal fields. As a matter of "common sense" Governor Pinchot attempted to mediate the Fayette County trouble by summoning United Mine Workers and Frick Coke officials to a peace conference-a meeting which would put the non-union company into direct negotiation with its union...
...suspicious or wary of people who come to sell him things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...