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Fortnight ago in Teheran Britain's Minister Sir Reader William Bullard, Soviet Ambassador M. A. Smirnov handed the Iranian Foreign Office a stiff note signed by both their Governments. Its substance : Iran must get rid of its overplus of Germans or else...
...made careful experiments to determine the absorption value of the common forms of construction used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre product of felt, designed to secure strength without losing absorbing power. The general result over the country has been the elimination in many cases of private offices, and the creation...
...Harvard has always remembered Arthur Cumnock's definition of team-play. He said it was the overplus, or surplus, of ability which a player could supply to the team beyond the amount which he needed to do his own work. In other words, it was the extra playing which he could contribute for the assistance of his neighbors, beyond what was required to cover his own position. The definition was valuable for its suggestive quality, but to my thinking it is strictly incorrect, and it illustrates the individualistic tendency which has always shown itself in Harvard football...
...apart: there was the time of '76-'77 in which the Lampoon was shot forth on its joyous way, the time of '86-'87 in which the Monthly was launched with high hopes and ambitions, and the time of '95-'96 in which again there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature has sometimes seemed to nap, and the offerings to the editors have not seemed bursting with the promise of a new epoch of letters in America...
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