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When winter driving of motor cars became common, a great impetus was given to the manufacture of industrial alcohol. Drivers began to consume large quantities of this product for anti-freeze mixtures in their radiators...
...however praiseworthy the purpose in Dr. Kennedy's mind, it is doubtful if professors alone will ever succeed in endowing colleges with a right perspective in athletics. Whenever the pendulum does swing to its proper position, the motion, will begin in a subjective impetus. Although faculties may be counted on for support, the solution of this problem in American education lies almost entirely with the students themselves...
...severe setback to those who believe a violent revolution is the only solution to the proletariat grievances. It is a further indication of the tendency of the Labor Party toward Conservative policies, a tendency first seen clearly during the premiership of Ramsay Macdonald. This tendency probably received impetus from the Labor Party's defeat in the last general election, a defeat largely caused by the nation's fear of Communism. England, in spite of unemployment, is evidently rapidly recovering from the War and from the consequent radical movements. The Labor Party seems to be quite sure that England wants...
Every fall now, we as a country, go college-mad. We call it the football craze, but nobody who has the slightest knowledge of mob psychology can underestimate the enormous impetus college wards that the absorption in football is giving the youth of America. It is impossible to think of football without thinking also of college. The two ideas are psychological Siamese twins. And it is impossible not the think of football from the day when the first fall practice beguns until after Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans...
...sold 22,150 vehicles-an increase of 4,670 or 27% over similar sales for the last half of 1924. Ordinarily, the best months for this type of manufacturing are March, April, May and June. This summer, however, production has run much higher than usual, owing to the great impetus toward bus transportation throughout the country. Sales of Mack trucks for July, for example, were about 1,050 machines-an increase of 66% on July, 1924, and within 150 of the best month this year. July is ordinarily a fairly slack production month...