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...tendency has been for an increasing number of students to be tutored by men who have little or no previous tutorial experience, who are doing graduate work, and who are not members of the Faculty. At the moment, one-fourth of all tutees are tutored by men of no previous experience, and one-fourth are tutored by men of only one or two years experience. More than one-third are tutored by graduate students...
...Swedish-German National Association, supposedly a non-political society, lists among its members many Swedish leaders, including the brothers General Henri de Champs and Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden...
Says Dr. Gumpert: The T. B. death rate may have dropped, but there are now 1,500,000 cases of t. b. in Germany, more than one-fourth of them advanced. According to Nazi medical theory, best cure for the disease is "hard, compulsory labor...
...record playing was made and the needle was tried on a fresh record. The original record was literally worn away in some places. You just didn't get anything at all, the whole surface being hopelessly scarred so that the tone was almost nil--this after 250 times, or one-fourth of what the needle is supposed to do with-out harming the record...
...welkin ring with catcalls, boos, and cries of "Sit down! Hire a hall!" Roundly applauded was a young doctor who said: "The private practice of medicine has fallen 40 to 50%. At this time to vote $60,000 salary for one man is not only illegal but also immoral. Many men would fill the job at one-fourth the salary...