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...feel I was guilty of carelessness. I just forgot, simply forgot, to close the door to the cobras' cage after I cleaned it. I couldn't do everything at once. All other snakes that got away were harmless except Bandy-Bandy and I'm sure he went down the drain pipe. The cobra," she added affectionately, "just found the coziest place it could in the whole reptile house. If most persons were half as nice as snakes, this world would be a better place...
...President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research was last week's report that from GE's laboratories had emerged a new kind of lily, which seemed good enough to patent...
...that the elementary language and distribution requirements have gone down the drain, it is high time that University Hall turn its attention to the problem of determining what criteria should be adopted to judge a man's fitness to enter into the broad field that the Freshman year is so properly becoming. Certainly some other standards than mere grades on College Boards must be selected. The problem is vital, and will take great pains to solve. In many ways it is a cause for wonder that with scholastic standards as diverse as they are in different sections of the United...
...gone to the wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts to reorganize under Section 77b of the Bankruptcy...
Individual states have a clear responsibility to shoulder the burden of welfare and administer local relief. Local units of public work programs should be set up, financed solely by state appropriations for this purpose. The federal government thus free from such extraordinary drain on the treasury, could confine their abundant energies to a more fruitful pursual of normal government functions--an excellent antidote for business and recovery...