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...York State's Board of Medical Examiners, one of the strictest in the land, shut New York's door tighter than ever. Only schools whose graduates have any chance to be examined in New York are the governmental medical schools of Austria, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, England, Ireland and Scotland...
...what extent our monetary systems, bott great and small, have become interdependent. Internationalism in monetary matters is now not merely a theory but an accomplished fact! The tidal wave of uncertainty and fear . originated in Austria, swept quickly through Hungary and Germany . . . flowed onward to Britain and the Scandinavian countries backwashing into the United States, and carried unusual demands on the American gold supply and credit system...
...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...Criterion: A Quarterly Review" published in London in 1922, in which his celebrated poem "The Waste Land" appears for the first time. Particularly interesting are several school books once owned by Eliot, with his signature, including Boswell's "A Journey to the Hebrides" and a volume of Scandinavian mythology...
Just so much grit in so many gear-boxes are most themes in most novels. A brilliant exception to this rule is Author Christiansen's Inter-Scandinavian prize novel Two Living and One Dead. So dextrously is its theme amalgamated with its characters that readers will find it impossible to formulate the one without telling the whole story of the others...