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...advantage of college is two-fold: it blesses him that gives as well as him that takes. As the individual gains from the opportunities derived from his college training, he must be prepared to use these gains in useful services, both to the college and the community. It is frequently said that a man can get from college just as much as he is willing to put in. This is a true motto a far as it goes, but no college can be regarded as successful unless it produces graduates willing and able to support it for the benefit...
...flying fish has big pectoral fins which fold against its sides when the fish swims and spread like the. wings of an airplane when the fish is in the air (see cut). With wings folded, flying fishes' scull themselves rapidly to the surface with their big tail fins and then shoot out into the air at a low angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said...
...little trouble with the union as U. S. Steel. First-half profits were up from a measly $182,000 in 1936 to a fat $4,400,000 in 1937. For American Rolling Mill, whose name is not among the 260 steel companies in the C. I. O. fold, the six-month period was the best in its history-$6,600,000, more than the figure for the entire year 1929. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel made $11,700,000 in the first half, double its earnings for the same six months of 1936. And Steelman Weir...
Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...
...better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold of the hills eleven miles from Union Pacific's famed new Sun Valley Lodge, he built an exact duplicate of a Swiss village, including an outdoor skating rink...