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Doubt arose whether this record would be officially accepted, not because any wind was blowing but because the racetrack sloped slightly upward, the finish being 30 in. higher than the start. Official objection might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine...
"Just Bad Legislation." President Hoover was thoroughly aroused against the pension measure. His objection was not so much to the shift from compensation to pensions as it was to the discriminating way in which Congress proposed the change. His displeasure was unmasked when at a press conference he denounced the...
Tolstoy's objection to definitions such as Mrs. Sloan's-which rests on the word "beauty"-is that we have as yet found no objective definition of the word "beauty" itself, and a definition that relies on the use of a word which itself needs definition is of...
Col. Murphy neither forgot, nor refused to tell, this news of the great Steel War: That at a dinner at New York's exclusive Links Clubs, last March, attended by himself, Mr. Schwab, Mr. Grace and many another promerger leader the plans were made for the purchase of Sheet...
It used to be the custom for the CRIMSON to print one or two editorials a year suggesting that the time be changed. Gradually a defeatist attitude crept in; crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to...