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...purposes of inter-library exchange, Widener has been putting some of its rarer books on the new micro-film for several years. However, since no machines were available for projecting the films, there was no benefit to Harvard from the exchange plan. Now it is expected that the film service will be a valuable aid to faculty members engaged in research since it will throw open to them the major libraries of the world...
...most serious rise has been in the price of meat. The less expensive cuts are up ten percent over last year, while such items as sirloin steak are 35 percent higher. Although sirloin steak may possibly be rarer in the future, Westcott disclosed that the University would still serve ten tons of roast beef every month...
...traveler is an immaculate, youthful-looking, polite, poker-faced Oriental who goes about with a small, expensive camera taking photographs of fortifications, air fields and the like, collects trade secrets, lets nothing escape his foxy eyes, but rarely writes a travel book. Travel books by Japanese women are even rarer. Japanese Lady in Europe, the travel diary of a sort of Japanese Provincial Lady calling herself merely "a chatterbox," fits none of these specifications. Aside from its interest as the work of a Japanese observer, readers will find its pert, oblique commentaries on travel-worn Europe refreshing in their...
...Rarer than a day in June is the day when the leaders of the House filibuster against an Administration bill. Yet so they did last week, for the House had gone rambunctious and was threatening to run away with the Relief bill. For a long time the House had been getting more impatient with Relief Administrator Hopkins...
...personalities of the chief members of the family were another valuable source of material. Mrs. Wilson was of that rare type of woman, rarer today than in her time, who believed that her place was in the home, but made it a position for distinction and achievement far greater than any career in the outside world gained by modern feminists. In this book she is given credit for the first time for her remarkable qualities as a mother and for her influence on Wilson's career...