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...automobiles. No freshman is permitted to own a car; an upper classman must get a special license for ownership from the disciplinary authorities of the university. Trips to the English Wellesley are precluded by another regulation which restricts the rental of a car to one hour and the cruising radius of five miles...
When he writes for the American Mercury (and sometimes in his Senate fulminations), Senator Reed permits himself to perform feats of epigrammatic agility. "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence," he has written, "and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed...
...Harvard Club of Boston granted four scholarships of $300 each to Freshmen who are graduates of public high and Latin schools, including Roxbury Latin, within a radius of 20 miles of the State House. The winners of these prizes are Edward Francis Goggin of Dorchester, Boston Latin; John Wilson Anderson Jr. of West Roxbury, Roxbury Latin; Harrison Graham Pope of West Roxbury, Roxbury Latin; and Lester Nelson Stanley of Somerville, Somerville High...
...instance, his Tie-Them-Down Powder, which, slyly slipped into tea, coffee or other beverage is guaranteed to fill the husband with an intense desire to spend his evenings at home. If, having been given Tie-Them-Down, the husband still shows no signs of curtailing his cruising radius, he becomes an "Aggravated Case" and the situation calls for Bring-back Powder, similar in nature but greater in potency than Tie-Them-Down. The Bringback retails at $50 for 25 powders; Tie-Them-Down at $25 for 25 powders. They are sold by the West African Remedy Co., the Pearce...
...Japan has submarines with an 11,000 mile cruising radius, which are a menace to the canal...