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...doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with equal impunity. Of course, they run a risk of embarrassment in case they abuse their privileges. There is still extant a Professor who walked into the New Lecture Hall to see how his assistant was supervising an examination in his popular survey course. To his immense irritation he found a young man standing in the middle of the centre aisle bluebook in one hand, examination paper...
...president of the intrepid Reveres, Colonel Hadley, has no doubts of the straight of the American Reds. He estimates that there are extant some 6,000,000 agents in the United States--a figure approximately four times as large as the most optimistic Communist would care to quote. Among this number, according to the president, are "at least 700 college professors, high school teachers and members of boards of education who are in sympathy with the Communists and are preaching their doctrines." But Colonel Hadley is not daunted by the size of the opposition. As he says: "In recent months...
...best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides in the British Museum...
...Extant is an old French print showing the future King Louis XIV playing when dauphin with his Yo-Yo-a child's top so made that when thrown from the hand it starts to spin as its string unwinds, then winds up the string on itself and returns to the hand. During the past two years a Yo-Yo craze has swept Europe. Among smart Parisians, Berliners and Londoners are hundreds of exalted Yo-Yo addicts, notably Edward of Wales. Just before Edouard Herriot fell as Premier of France, a Paris weekly pictured his frantic appeals to all sections...
...basis of 1830 methods six million men would have been needed to cultivate the soil for the 1929 U. S. wheat crop. With the best extant equipment (such as 60-duckfoot gang plows) 4,000 men could have planted the whole crop...