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...closely shaven youths in feminine habiliments trip lightly over the stage after the recognized manner of chorus girls. The University's reputation in this line is in no way impaired by the existence of organizations that recognize the serious side of the drama. If the 47 Workshop is the outlet for the budding playwright, the Dramatic Club, in a different way, endeavors to achieve the same end for the amateur actor--and actress...
...example of the necessity for such foreign relations, he took the Japanese population question, saying that Japan proper is now so thickly populated that it has reached a point of saturation. From now on there must be some outlet, but what outlet no one knows, for every country is trying to prevent the yellow race from crossing its borders. If some solution is not evolved through the medium of a Congress of Nations, this situation is liable, he prophesied, to precipitate another World...
...think it unnecessary for me to get into the arguments for and against Italy's complete annexation of Fiume. It certainly ought to be recognized (the late war is a painful example) that the peoples of any nation--especially agricultural nations--must have a natural and accessible outlet to the sea. Italy's uncompromising control over Fiume and the surrounding country would virtually bottle up Jugo-Slavia, Austria, Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia...
...system which will provide paved roads through every county in the state and touching every city of 2000 population or more, to be constructed entirely out of the earnings of the automobile license fees and without any expense to the general tax payers. A waterway system giving Chicago an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico has been adopted and the government engineers have approved...
...meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth. Hence their innate longing to criticise, deprived of its normal outlet, finds this vent, to the dismay, disgust, and despair of intelligent readers. E. M. WESTON 1G. E. R. DUNN...