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According to Mr. Eastman, Mr. Johnson had not done very well. "The result of the incorrect accounting," said the Commissioner, "was that the Missouri Pacific presented a false record of its current assets, of its liabilities and of its income account. It was enabled to make this false showing at a time when it was in great financial peril...
...cancer appears in any of the hybrid females " said Dr. Little, "Miss Slye's theory is incorrect, and the type of inheritance is not simply Mendelian, nor is cancer recessive. The test should take from two to three years, but is so direct and simple, involving only elementary principles of Mendelian inheritance and no permanent removal of any of Miss Slye's animals from her laboratory, that I cannot see why it should not be supported and begun at once. If Miss Slye's theory is correct, its importance as a practical matter to the human race...
Said the London Financial News: "It would be wholly incorrect to assume-despite Mr. Morgenthau's statement-that a sort of 'new gold standard' stabilization is hereby achieved...
Perhaps it is incorrect to refuse to believe the statement of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Perhaps the Curley car was not going over 50 miles, as has been testified. Perhaps it was not passing another car at that rate and perhaps the Governor's person is so estimable in the sight of the powers that be that he will always be miraculously shielded from harm. In view of the fact that he has been involved in a long string of accidents and is notorious throughout the state for the reckless speeding of his cars, the above supposition luckily holds...
...observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make him relax, shrewd words on how to detect bad influences, how to keep your wife from reading in bed, how to locate habit-patterns that lead to incorrect appraisals of a bad situation, how to detect inhibitions that block purposeful action, how to recognize worry when it sneaks into the consciousness disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought. It also contains little stories grained into the theoretical material: Tucker Ames worried until he could not get ahead because...