Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examinations, and the mark system generally. "Gentlemen, they represent a tribute you pay to the great red machine. They are a nuisance to everybody; they serve no educational purpose; they should be abolished." By the time he is an assistant professor our young instructor dismisses them as "a necessary evil," and when he has reached full academic estate, he may even approve of them...
Send me one thousand reprints of your editorial--we can use them for napkins for the tutors' table, and they will serve as a constant reminder of their evil ways. V. H. Kramer...
...Wednesday evenings from 8:30 to 9 E. S. T. starting Oct. 4, will have orchestra music led by Don Voorhees, three baritone solos by Conrad Thibault, three violin solos by Spalding and two health-talks to mothers in which Constipation will be emphasized as the root of all evil. Violinist Spalding will start the series with "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Almost as striking as the Spalding-Castoria conjunction will be the crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads...
...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...
...administration is putting theart before the horse. It has avoided as far as possible the expedients of paper money and an unbalanced budget which are in themselves harmless; and it has deliberately attempted to raise prices; to accomplish directly and without compensation that evil which is most to be avoided in all recovery schemes...