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...probability. But, strangely enough, there remain only two French issues which are callable, and both of them small, one for $10,000,000 and one for $4,000,000. The rest of the $500,000,000 in French bonds owned in the U. S. are non-callable-a grievous slip on the part of the French financiers who negotiated the sale of their bonds. They did not foresee their good fortune in U. S. public favor...
...after all, who will blame the Student Vagabond? Who, indeed! Who is so hard hearted as not to shed a tear--even only figuratively speaking at the thought of the grievous impediment which the freezing slush of Massachusetts avenue would offer to progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those...
Readers of the New York Herald Tribune paused, with forkfuls of breakfast bacon poised, to read a story in that newspaper, and to wonder. The Herald Tribune had made a grievous error, and was eating printed words...
...reports, Dr. Carroll's Interchurch Conference' study of these church losses recommends a cure: "The discovery that members are straying away from the flock while church and pastor are busy with matters of far less moment and that wanderers are increasing at an alarming rate, must seem a grievous thing demanding immediate attention from those still in the fold. . . . Take away the materialistic character of the shekels needed for the sanctuary. Do not use such terms as 'assessments,' taxes' and 'per capita rates.' Merge money matters into acts of spiritual worship and service...
...error which gets published, he usually receives a thoroughgoing reprimand in private from his chief. Should he then exert himself to make amends, he is usually patted on the back and told he is "good." But, again, this is done privately. Sometimes, however, the initial fault is so grievous that the correspondent's employers feel obliged to seize the first opportunity to pat the erring one publicly, so that all may know his professional family is still proud...