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Because economy in any form is a bitter draft to the average Congressman, he and a majority of his fellows were determined to make legislative hash out of this measure. A special rule ("the damndest rule we ever got," according to Chairman Pou of the Rules Committee) was introduced to limit debate and amendments and thus hold the rider intact. But the House swept the "gag rule" aside and in a state of revolt reminiscent of the Sales Tax fight, plunged headlong into the redrafting of the economy bill on the floor. There was no predominant leader of this latest...
Perhaps, were time enough spent, some worthy subject could always be found. But, the question rises, would that process be really representative? There's no denying that we, as a group, hold ideas which, though not lofty nor all-embracing, interest and influence us. "Hash parties" or "bull sessions" stand proof to this. And after all, the world isn't really fooled into believing we are always serious. So let's be ourselves and dare to express some of our more frivolous ideas. Radcliffe Daily...
Exclusive stories like the foregoing pop up here and there in the Sino-Japanese news to the U. S.; but the war is not a war of great "scoops." Rather the scene is that of the U. S. Press machine functioning smoothly, making remarkably tasty hash of what it can see., but not bothering to see deep...
...seen through the stationary eyepiece over its centre. But the image thus presented was blurred, since it was seen in motion as it passed the light. Scientists Loomis & Harvey fixed the light so that it would flash on and off, each Hash coinciding with the reappearance of the cell beneath the lamp. Thus a series of distinct, clear pictures was presented-8,000 of them to the minute, so many that the eye could not detect the periods of darkness...
...Odyssean poem." he ventured, "seems to be the work of one man, highly literate and a great poet." Contrary-minded professors fear that the works of "Homer" are an ancient hash, comprising the efforts of several great poets and ballad singers, not all of them literate...