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...educator in the usual sense: he never drafted a college catalogue or worried about a football team. He writes too well, and has made too much money writing, to be accepted by scholars as one of themselves. He has been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people...
...Rogers Herod, president of the International General Electric Company, began the meeting by saying that the increase in manufacturing abroad has put the United States in great need for men in manufacturing abroad. There is just as much room for the intelligent job-seeker abroad as there is at home, he said...
...their 178 legalized houses of prostitution and the 7,000 registered whores. Brothel-keepers, a $20-million-a-year industry at stake, pleaded that red-haired Mme. Richard, who won the Legion of Honor as a spy for France in World War I, was a neurotic and a publicity-seeker. They also tried to bribe her. Mme. Richard carried the day: the brothels were closed...
...even lunches are munched lately. Expensive reference works like encyclopedias and dictionaries are handled so roughly by users that pages are torn and parts are even ripped out. Feet are displayed right on the reading table, close to your nose, if you happen to be sitting opposite the comfort-seeker, and I can mention a few other habits and uses or rather abuses which students should have been taught long ago, if they haven't the inner breeding, to avoid...
...Depth Seeker...