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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches of the Maginot Line and Westwall, facing each other across the Rhine from Lauterbourg south to the Swiss border, lay quiet except for occasional, experimental artillery exchanges. Soldiers of both armies were reported bathing on their respective sides of the river, in full view of each other. Signs...
Timed to coincide with the Harvard meeting was the publication of Dr. Neurath's new book for laymen, Modern Man in the Making,* which is written in plain and simple style, copiously illustrated with pictographs. Dr. Neurath discusses such aspects of "modernity" as urbanization, lower death rates, lower birth rates, higher literacy rates, higher suicide rates, mechanization, shows the relations between them...
...which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend of which even the surer facts have been concealed, exaggerated, distorted, hushed up by shocked relatives or embroidered by starry-eyed admirers of his relations with famed Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine...
...matter of fact, the k.w.h. rate of the Commonwealth & Southern's Northern properties, which I think are largely steam, are slightly lower than the rates of its Southern properties, while their average is the lowest in the country, I believe...
...unique idea of teaching while you learn, combined with social service work, has been put into effect by the Phillips Brooks House "undergraduate faculty." Last year, the faculty's first, fifty students taught an equal number of high school boys from the lower income brackets subjects they were studying themselves...