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...medical student; or they have bowed to the University law which permits no course to have more than six hours of laboratory travail per week, placing this maximum figure in the catalogue, when in actual practice it is the minimum for a genius. This six-hour law was enacted lest a course require more of a student than should be credited to a single course...
Still anxious lest they offend their Dry enemies, the New York brewers, through Col. Jacob Ruppert, had announced that the new brew would not be delivered until 6 a. m. on historic April 7 so that there would be no "carnival of untoward celebration." Next day at lunch time, New Yorkers thronged forth to try their beer. First problem was to find it. Most hotels and clubs were serving but elsewhere distribution was capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks...
...three weeks Chango has been demanding white blood lest a curse be cast upon us. . . . While we had the girls we fed them raw potatoes, sugar and water for that is what a sacrifice for Chango must have. . . . It was decided to hold the sacrifice today because of the search being made for the girls...
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Await admitted that his office had known about Harriman irregularities as long ago as July 23 but that prosecutions were delayed in the hope of salvaging deposits. The Treasury hesitated ("in the public interest") to act lest it disturb the already critical banking situation...
...Republic "died" (TIME, March 13) and before the new Reichstag met-nearly all Communist Deputies and many Socialist Deputies were in jail. The Hitler Government announced that no Communist Deputies (even should they break jail) would be admitted to the Reichstag. Most Socialist Deputies were expected to stay away, lest they be harmed. The bravest Socialist (by reputation), Dr. Otto Braun, Premier of Prussia, once famed as "The Lion of Social Democracy," fled to Switzerland where he was still so terrified that he telegraphed to Berlin his resignation from the Prussian Diet and from the German Reichstag...