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...will go forth and buy us a derby and a cane that we too, may look like an undertaker. The dregs await us. Pathetic elegies persist in recurring...
Many thinkers have not been able to explain knowledge of the world with Mr. Chase's facility. Educators, moreover, persist in teaching what he would call the impractical arts but the students versed in this learning and training by its discipline are not likely to approach current problems with the confidently preconceived prejudices of many of our realists. If intellectual understanding and unbiased thinking are the products of such an education it is the kind of training modern youth desires...
...alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death is a masterly example of her matter-of-fact style) it gathers a sombre power that rhetoric rarely attains. The Executioner Waits is neither easy nor inspiriting reading, but few readers who persist to the end will soon forget...
...cigaret. He yelled for a drink of beer, turned on the gas jets of the kitchen stove, refused to jump off the icebox. Doctors who will doubtless follow the Woods twins for many a year hope to have this question answered: Will the present differences between Johnny and Jimmy persist as they go through kindergarten, school and workaday life? There has been no scientific evidence one way or another. Professor Frederick Tilney, Dr. McGraw's supervisor in the experiment, last week doubted that Johnny's present advantage would last long...
What Belgium most fears is that Leopold III, a passionate devotee of mountain climbing like his father who climbed once too often, will continue to persist in this risky royal sport, thus keeping the realm in peril of another accident which might leave the Belgians stranded with a three-year-old King Baudoin...