Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inconsequential as much of Professor Palmer's facts may be, the terse style prevents it from becoming tedious, but the true flow of ripe wisdom is not reached until the second half of the book. Here the passages are so inchoate with thought that the sentences are almost without exception deep, if not winged, aphorisms. Professor Palmer's work should go on the shelves side by side with the settled wisdom of other great personalities in American letters...
...libretto, free from operatic archaisms, is excellent. Yet (as in other English opera) there were bits that sounded funny and forced. Contralto Grace Divine sang: "What a lovely ball!'' Contralto Marion Telva sang back: "You think so? Thank you!" Longer passages adapted themselves more smoothly to the flow of music, as in Peter's first-act narrative. Excerpt...
...what a futile gesture to pretend that the liquor traffic can be stopped by putting the sponge at the mouth instead of at the source of the flow. The bootlegger's assistant who gave the police the tip will probably go free, yet he is the loser, for he has no job. The bootlegger will get a new assistant and Michigan can drink toasts freely for another six months, as all other colleges and citizens...
...high cost of living in France which causes anxiety to all Frenchmen and their families, is due to our amazing rise in gold stores, because currency inflation is the chief factor in the upward movement of prices. . . . The flow of French long-term credits to nations which are badly in need of financial aid will prove the only natural...
...annual fund raised among the alumni can be put to purposes far worthier and more urgently necessary than the support of our athletics; namely, scholarship and loan funds for self-supporting students, and the maintenance of adequate salaries and retiring allowances for members of the faculty. If the flow of money of generous alumni was diverted from the educational to the athletic channels, when there is no doubt as to which cause is the more needy, the press would have just cause to decry overemphasis. --Yale News...