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...Russians' memories of the League of Nations, and of their unhappy exit from the League, still burn and rankle. Russia perforce took a back seat in the League; she proposes to take and hold a front seat in the new world organization. Front-seat manners will have to be acquired later...
...beauties ballyhoo a multitude of little things: soft front-seat edges for comfort, better insulation against road-rumble, trigger-release parking brakes, direction signals and warning signals for low gas & oil, hot motor, faulty ignition, etc. Pointing up comfort, safety, economy, new models are generally longer, lower, wider, roomier, with increased visibility and lots more chromium. Steering column gearshift relegates to the archives the old wobble-stick. Running boards are mostly optional. Air-conditioned heaters are highly favored...
...buildings and new faces are this year to see for the first time that annual exodus from Cambridge with which for years Harvard students have celebrated the Christmas Spirit. To some, it means a front-seat rivalry for two short weeks with the mythical tired business man; to others it means wandering home to pick up well-intentioned neck-ties and a little rest. For others, it is rumored, the Christmas Spirit hovers over the ice-caked board walks and the dust-laden air of Widener. The Christmas Spirit, though, is pagan-hard and Christoan-strong enough to disregard such...