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...pressure on gold countries, now faced with "unfair" competition, also to give up the gold standard. The longer the list of paper countries the more likely that the remaining gold countries will be forced off gold. World-wide depreciation in terms of old gold parties has been the inevitable result of British-American leadership in these matters...
...field of History and Literature, however, presents a specialized problem. Only fifty men are admitted to this field every year, and those admitted are supposed to be capable of doing honor work. As a result, over 90% of the students in this Department graduate with honors, and it is only the occasional man who falls by the wayside...
...tutorial system is certainly not advisable. This point is made stronger when it is considered that the Department covers two separate fields, both of which are large. It is impossible, in six or eight courses, to get an adequate view of both History and Literature. As a result of this, tutorial instruction must supply the missing material. More important, the two fields must be integrated in tutorial, there being no courses in History and Literature as such...
...office of the Comintern as a translator. In Russia during the excitement before the expulsion of Trotsky, he was depressed by the conflicts in the Communist Party, dispirited by the unprincipled career-hunting he observed, but did not lose his faith in Communism as a result. He is now on the editorial staff of the New Masses...
...audience, he saved it from the threatening advances of Jim (Jim's only display of emotion all afternoon.) But his hardest test was yet to come. Apparently unversed in the art of dousing a spinnaker, this hero attempted to close the object while still facing full into the gale. Result: one umbrella, inside out. Undaunted, he wheeled around, let the wind restore it to its original shape, closed it and returned triumphantly to his escortee...