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...successor of Dean Edgell, former head of the School, was appointed last June. The changes which he is initiating are still in a state of flux, but he revealed their general objective...
...Cronin also traces the consequences of the disaster in the lives of Richard Barras, the mine owner, and his son, pictures them living in a class that is in a state of violent flux with its Wartime fortunes and post-War bankruptcies. Discovering that his father had willfully sacrificed the men, young Barras spent a fortune, eventually lost the mine, trying to make it safe and yet pay high wages...
...white, nonmetallic mineral is gypsum. It has been used as a building material throughout history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...
...complete distribution of the new telephone directories will require about two more weeks. During that time the confusion will become steadily less, and the personnel of the telephonic company will be in a constant state of flux...
Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...