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There is a temporary solution, however, which might be put into effect; and that is a system of Student House Associates. Without too much discomfort each House could extend its privileges to twenty or thirty extra students, though it is doubtful if libraries which are already crowded during reading periods, could stand any extra packing. The Plan would alleviate the unwarranted discrimination against men who happen to have bad luck in their applications. For, every year the House Master must turn away certain students, because they have only ordinary marks, because an over demand happens to exist in the type...
...deciduous or milk teeth erupt into the oral cavity shortly after birth," continued Bolye. "The eruption of teeth in a normal well nourished infant should be attended by little discomfort. The deciduous dentition is nature's way of supplying teeth adapted to the small jaws of the child...
...cause of all this discomfort is a low pressure area which is spread over the entire Northeast...
...reopened, a Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs, headed by Ambassador John Van Antwerp MacMurray, after a month touring the islands was by last week nearing the end of its job: to examine political and economic means of arranging the transition to complete Philippine independence with the least possible discomfort to U. S. industries and Philippine inhabitants. The Committee, mostly composed of specialists on the subject of Far Eastern trade problems, met in Washington last spring, held a series of hearings in San Francisco before leaving for Manila in July. In November it will be ready to draw...
...taken charge of the police campaign to track down the extremists who did their best to reduce the royal visit to a shambles. Moreover, since 1922 he has been empowered by the Civil Authorities Act to jail indefinitely anybody suspected of sedition, has frequently exercised his privilege to the discomfort of Republicans...