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...major failings of Harvard University is the fact that not five per cent of its officers, faculty, and students realize that the Harvard Union is a Freshman dormitory as well as a Freshman dining hall. It is among the saddest of daily experiences for the gentlemen who reside there to be confronted at table by the question, "Where do you live?" Invariably the answer, "Oh, I live right here in the Union," is followed either by a look of annoyance and the words, "Come on, I don't mean where are you right at this moment but where is your...
...frequency, E C and C E. S E and E S, E T and T E, N O and 0 N. The present keyboard, Professor Dvorak discovered, has many one-handed words which make the left hand do 47% more work than the right. Examples: greater, greatest, sad. saddest, safe, safer, was, were, care, dare, fare, minimum, you, in, on. On the Dvorak-Dealey keyboard no word or syllable can (he says) be written by the right hand alone, and only about ten common words and a very small number of syllables with the left hand alone. High school misspellers...
...Saddest and strangest sight of the week was a hunger marchers' Women's Brigade whose cheer leader, Mrs. Harriet Paisley, is a 62-year-old Lancashire grandmother. Clattering along on thick-soled Lancashire clogs, these hard-faced women grimly entered and marched about London solemnly blowing rubber razzberries at well-dressed citizens, bobbies and Royal Horse Guards...
...Church of England brought no charges against Lawyer Machray. To rebuild the depleted fund, the income of which was from $60,000 to $70,000 a year, it was proposed that an appeal be sent to Anglican laymen throughout Canada. Saddest was the case of venerable, white- bearded Archbishop Matheson, onetime primate of all Canada. He admitted he had " lost everything," including $9,000 in savings, an $8,000 house...
...athletes who had arrived in Los Angeles last week for the Xth Olympic Games, saddest were 69 Brazilians. They had brought with them 50,000 bags of coffee but no money. When they tried to land at Los Angeles, they were unable to pay the head tax of $1 per man. Having no radio, they learned for the first time about the Brazilian revolution. Appalled, the Brazilians set about selling coffee to pay their expenses...