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Jibed Madrid's Sol: "Nowhere have the police and judicial organizations given more manifest proof of impotence than in the U. S." Paris' Jour informed its readers that U. S. law "has proved insufficient to protect against gangsters men whose glory shines upon their country...
...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...
...announcement of the plans to establish a Tercentenary Fund at Harvard for the endowment of annual Prize Scholarships in every state of the union and of research professorships of a new sort, President James Bryant Conant has once more made manifest his determination to make Harvard even more than in its past of fine tradition an institution of value and usefulness to the nation 'for generations to come...
Sultan & Tactics. At the numerous palaces of His Sherifian Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed, Commander of the Faithful, last week a most remarkable independence was manifest. Was the Empire of Morocco, united in cherished friendship with the Kingdom of Italy, to apply sanctions merely because France was applying them and because the Sultan can do nothing without the countersignature of the French Resident General? The answer seemed to be a ringing Moroccan, "No, 1,000 times...
...Spinsters show better emotional balance than wives, husbands show better balance than bachelors. Women manifest peaks of "emotionality" in early maturity and old age. Old people in general are less well adjusted than younger groups.- Raymond R. Willoughby, Clark University...