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...most colossal and ruinous social sin that afflicts mankind: it is utterly and irremediably unchristian; in its total method and effect it means everything that Jesus did not mean and it means nothing that He did mean; it is a more blatant denial of every Christian doctrine about God and man than all the theoretical atheists on earth ever could devise...
...boys," contending that the gentle influence of woman during a young hearty's formative years robbed him of his proper British hardihood, made him a "softie." Last year, Novelist H. G. Wells backed up this contention by notifying the U. S. that "coeducation in American universities is ruinous to youth and is 'sissifying...
...Gould system started in 1857 with a terrific war of control against E. H. Harrlman. It was the era of mad railroad construction when fortunes awaited the successful builder. Such success was achieved chiefly by ruinous competition; and miles of torn tracks, hundreds of crushed investors, unceasing litigation, hectic legislation, and deserted boom towns marked the Gould-Harriman tornado...
During the holidays, hearings were held on this bill by a joint sub-com- mittee of the Senate and House Post Office Committees. The publishers in force attacked it with a great fanfare of protest; they said it was ruinous, they said second class mail had been wrongly accused of causing a deficit. Postmaster General New declared that the bill was fair and absolutely necessary if postal pay was to be increased...
...submitted a proposal for increasing postal rates. His proposal was designed to take only about $10,000,000 from the grumbling publishers, collecting about $66,000,000 additional from the mail-using public as a whole. Publishers at once cried out that even the increase proposed would be ruinous to many a publication. He suggested increase of rates...