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Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Associate Professor of Anthropology, slashed out with a lecture modestly entitled "The Case Against Liberalism," at Tuesday evening's "Liberalism" meeting, the fourth in a series of seven. Not only did the speaker flail the liberal conception of basic human nature, but he also hit at our religion of today, declaring "we need a church, a new church, an humanistic secular church...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
...returned in time to hear Laborite Lord Noel-Buxton flail the Government's Imperial policy-a policy which Earl Baldwin has been intermittently sponsoring since 1923 when he first became Prime Minister. Lord Noel-Buxton thundered that the Government was bungling its African relations, urged the Imperial Conference, meeting in London, to see to it that the peoples of the Empire were protected "regardless of race." Earl Baldwin said nothing...
Civilian Rule. The smell of spring survived the stench of corpses in Madrid last week. A few almond trees bravely retained their bloom as the Rightists continued to flail Madrid day after day with unremitting shellfire. And from Valencia, where Leftist Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was still seeking refuge, an order was sent to Madrid dissolving Madrid's Supreme Defense Junta, headed by formidable General José Miaja who for almost six months has been the Capital's all-powerful boss. Because Madrid had been shelled for 13 consecutive days Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja...
...following year an operation stiffened her right ankle and a week later another operation stiffened her left ankle. Those operations corrected her club-footedness. But, although the deformities of the knee were overcome, the right knee "was practically flail." Determined to repair Miss T. S. to the utmost, Dr. Truslow stiffened her floppy right leg at the knee...