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...CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka, 1924) will be well...
...lessen the great differences that exist in room prices would be to lessen the feeling of many residents that some men are obtaining the same advantages at far less than cost. The best way of setting the rates would be first to set the span of prices, and to determine how many different levels there should be. The number of accommodations in each price class should be proportional to the total accommodations in the House...
...make new contacts among the House members. Secondly, the report favours the admission of commuters to the House libraries; and thirdly, it suggests the dissolution of the Brooks House teams, and the inclusion of their members in the House teams. All these measures, the Council believes, will help to lessen the feeling of exclusion under which the non-members of the Houses labour, and will at the same time give them the opportunity of profiting to the fullest from college associations...
Just over the Bavarian border a tangible threat to Austria's safety exists in the form of 6,000 to 8,000 Austrian Nazi "exiles," living in German camps, drilling with German rifles. Millimetternich's next move was to lessen this danger by mobilizing 1,000 members of the Hilfspolizei (Assistant Police) and sending them to reinforce the present border guards. The Hilfspolizei are specially picked members of the officially unarmed anti-Nazi Heimwehr who have been armed and enrolled in the national government. Because of South Austrian murmurings that the Tyrol was playing too large a part...
...inevitably had other interests at heart. Hardly a businessman in the whole U. S. but has taken forehanded measures tending to nullify the recovery program temporarily: has bought supplies or manufactured goods for future use before the new codes and higher prices go into effect. Obvious result is to lessen the amount of employment that will be available after wages are raised, hours shortened. In the oil industry many a company has stored cheap oil, but oil is not a prime example. Last week, the second in which the cotton textile code was in effect, the number of bales...