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...biggest and quickest profits was made by James Travers, an 82-year-old ex-newspaperman and wildcatter, who last year had quietly bought the oil rights to 7,000 acres. He had already sold the rights to 1,000 acres for $200,000 cash...
...masterpiece. Besides, he has to deliver a good deal of ornate language in his deep-city Irish-American diction, very good of itself, but inappropriate here. The total effect of the picture is "entertainment" troubled by delusions of "art," and vice versa. Comedy, whether high or low, is the quickest thing there is to perish under pretension...
...educational system devised as a panacea for one philosophical group will almost certainly be challenged by others. Flaws can be found in any utopia, and educators would be among the quickest to look for them. Without urging the necessity and inevitability of every reform included in the plan, however, it may be possible to outline for non-scientific studies a utopian program which would answer some of the most damaging attacks made on the educational structure of the College as it stands...
...novice learn to play golf from a book? The pros are always the quickest to say no. They are also the first to write the books. Last week one of the best of them all, grim little (137 Ibs.) Ben Hogan, published one of the best books of golf dos & don'ts. Some tips from Ben Hogan's Power Golf (A. S. Barnes...
...would be terrifyingly simple. The proponents of such a preventive war (another phrase for it was "anticipatory retaliation") even gave their argument a specious touch of idealism. If a world government is the only way to peace, the argument ran, then a final, coldly calculated war is the quickest way to achieve...