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...some months John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U.S. Minister to China at Peking, has been consistently chagrined to discover that the Chinese political and military situation is in such a state of perpetual flux that whatever news he cables to Washington stands about one chance in ten of being pertinent* when received...
...both cases adolescence brings a certain sophistication in regard to this chaos and at the same time a desire to introduce order. A vague suspicion is born that perhaps after all a clearer perspective will make possible a deduction of true values that remain untouched by the whirling flux of events. The child has become a philosopher. And it may be said that the hall mark of civilization has always been its ability to contribute to the ever widening stream of philosophical thought...
While other U. S. colleges continued to seethe quietly last week, two ripples of measurable proportions passed over Yale University, indicating main currents of today's educational flux, sounding main chords of that universal chorus, What's Wrong with U. S. Educa-ation...
...time of flux at Soldiers Field. Changes have been made in the football museum and in the methods of cheer leading. And it does not seem that these changes have been made for the worse...
...elapse between a general revision of our tariff schedules. There should be some way of correcting specific inequalities during such intervals. If there is any merit in the idea of a flexible tariff, it is too much to hope that an experimental measure devised in a time of abnormal flux and instability in international trade conditions may be rewritten to meet obvious difficulties in practical administration...