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...turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last become apparent that tutoring is not a blind alley but a recognized part of the highroad to academic honor and distinction...
...heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners out of Fullerton. Marjorie at last was leaving for her Manhattan dramatic school. Micky was going to have a baby. The Author, in company with many a left-wing litterateur, has taken a modern highroad to Parnassus. He comes honestly by his industrial subject. After serving in the War with an ambulance corps, later in the French artillery, he worked nine months in a Canadian mill town, then as a bobbin-boy in a New Bedford, Mass. mill. When he sold his first short story...
...police are closing in on the convict-tycoon, the money in the lost suitcase begins to blow into the crowd, the grandstand collapses. ... At last peace: the factory is mechanized, the ex-workers engaged in mass lounging, fishing, dancing. The two heroes go off singing for pennies on the highroad of liberty...
...revolt ended than the Government had to face another problem. Packs of famished wolves were reported in East Finland sweeping south from Lapland. Farmers' livestock was slaughtered, the beasts even invading village streets. In mid-Finland a young girl was torn to pieces as she walked on the highroad near her home. Civil guards turned from the Fascists to the wolves but were able to report the death of only two by the week...
Fortnight ago two Negroes, Pig Lockett and Holly White, held up a white couple on the highroad near De Kalb, Miss., took from them $45. Last week feeling in De Kalb ran high against Pig and Holly. Therefore two policemen put them in an automobile, started to transfer them to Scooba, Miss, for a preliminary court hearing. Townsmen intercepted the motor, bound the policemen to trees, hanged Pig and Holly from other trees - 14th and 15th lynchees of the year...