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...that it is a queer document is to put the case mildly. Of the eleven members of the commission, ten subscribe to the general recommendations, which are dry in effect and in implication. But six members, in the individual opinions which all had the privilege of setting forth, strike a note not at all in accord with the conclusions of the committee as a whole. Two of them advocate absolute repeal, and the four others would have the Amendment revised to lodge with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Sham Report | 1/21/1931 | See Source »

League Report. There is nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Sound Swishing | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

What the Public Can Do is to go promptly, fearlessly to a doctor with the first sign of what might be Cancer. Such signs include: any unusual lump in the flesh, especially in the breast; any persistent sore; any queer acting mole, wart or other skin peculiarity; any dribble of blood from the mouth or other body openings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...decided to take old Tawaska's advice, go off in her own company and have a look at herself. Caroline may not be Authoress Borden's mouthpiece, but Caroline has a low opinion of men, and her experience would seem to justify it. Only the queer (and apparently celibate) Tawaska has her admiration. However emotional her judgments, she is introspective, and gains sympathetic agreement when she considers herself an awful fool. You may be annoyed at her careless morality, but the passionate way she went at things will make you admit she had more than her share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Eyed Woman | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...vallant and exceptional students "ever dared rise to such dizzy heights" as the study of differential and integral calculus, but that today the calculus is merely the starting point in college mathematics. The march of modern science has erased from the mathematical specialist the stain of being "queer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huntington Declares People are Coming to Realize Abstract Beauty in Mathematics--Points Out Value of the Science | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

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