Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income taxes, woman suffrage, labor regulation and old-age pension acts, and other laws which were models for liberal legislators elsewhere. The way the Maoris were treated-today they are the only Polynesian people who are increasing-was and is a criterion for other governments with native problems to follow...
Doggedly the reporter trailed his prey to the Littauer Center at Harvard in the evening. Awaiting the chairman of the Democratic Committee were a select group of Government professors and Public Administration students. "It is strictly off the record," someone explained as the reporter tried to follow Farley through the door...
More general is the criticism that fifteen scholarships are a useless if noble gesture toward Pan-American solidarity and good faith. But on more useless than are Rhodes scholarships for promoting Anglo-American relations. It is furthermore possible that other schools will follow Harvard's lead. The Refugee Plan, conceived and delivered at Harvard, has since grown into a lusty child supported by a number of eastern colleges. There is just as much reason that this plan should catch the fancy of other undergraduates...
Marion makes Topper follow his wife to the French Riviera. There, appearing and disappearing with clocklike regularity, she plays tricks with Topper's headgear (see cut), cheats at roulette, removes a pair of bathing trunks from Mrs. Topper's gigolo, and in a climactic scene disappears from a ballroom floor, leaving Topper to dance a sudden solo...
...queasy readers it may provide a sensation something like that of sitting in an operating amphitheatre for the first time. Readers with steadier stomachs will follow with interest such clinical details as the sensations of Dr. Norton's wife when she is having an uncontrollable laughing fit, and when she realizes she can never be cured...