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...practical Joseph Stalin's quiet process of throwing overboard unworkable schemes for tampering with fundamentals, the Soviet Government decreed last week reversal of the Communist laws under which abortion has been free & easy throughout Russia. As recently as 1930 the Dictator encouraged public celebration of "The Tenth Anniversary Of The Legalization Of Abortion in Russia" (TIME, June...
...windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing through a heavy gale at night, Fleetwing shipped a sea which carried eight men overboard. Two were swept back by the next comber, but the rest were lost. Despite this tragedy, Fleetwing finished second, 40 minutes ahead of Vesta and only eight hours behind Henrietta, winner in 13 days...
...keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope in heavy weather or keeping a workable laboratory in a corner of the chartroom, were as nothing, compared to the psychological chafing brought about by close quarters...
...that while 12% of the population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman-secretary: "If church attendance continues to peter out, our mission societies and all our other church organizations will go overboard. To save the church our laymen must go to church...
...Come, all ye who drink and are heavy laden.--Cambridge is to be turned into a dasert.--The Freshman is to be deprived of his beer.--Remember your fathers.--Did they not throw the tea overboard...