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...thesis is part and parcel of the other; if a firm and longsighted tradition of building students into graduate workers, graduate workers into scientists, was followed through its broader cultural implications, the teaching morals and the tutorial function in the Physics Department would become an inspiration instead of a vulgar failure...
...member of the Maryland legislature, Mr. Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...
...burly can be shown to be related to the Reformation by economic ties; it is certainly significant that the English schism, in its early stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII, but was part and parcel of an economic motive which despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most Catholic of English poets...
...found the triple bread line: Rye. White. Whole Wheat. Two melancholy goats ask. "What do people do with their garbage nowadays?" Political note: An unmistakable plutocrat with cigar and limousine appears above the caption: "The manufacturer of shirts of various colors." A fleeing burglar carrying an undersized parcel of swag is hailed as an encouraging omen...
...problem of provisioning the men within the plant was solved by having deliveries made by parcel post. On the sixth day of the strike a new difficulty arose. Three hundred and eighty wives and mothers of the men imprisoned in the plant served notice on Village President Anton Brotz of Kohler that either their husbands and sons must be set free, or they would march straight into the plant to be with their loved ones...