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...week he received as compensation for his injured arm. Peacher, he said, carted him off in his automobile, threw him into jail with other Negroes he picked up on the way. During their stay in jail they were given no food, Anderson said, were told by Peacher to "sharpen your teeth and gnaw those bars" when they asked for some. After two days in jail Anderson and twelve black companions were herded into the office of Mayor T. S. Mitchell, sitting as Justice of the Peace. "De Law" told them they were guilty of vagrancy, Anderson said, and that...
Correctly he says that an education should sharpen the wits and discipline reasoning. Good intellectual habits are established by studying logic and mathematics, but the same mental exercises come from a workout with other and more valuable subjects. Chemistry and Physics train the mind exactly as do abstract problems, and they in themselves are useful to know. As Mr. Conant stated at the Tercentenary, colleges must find "the modern equivalent of the older educational disciplines...
...whether he will go mad and betray himself, his comrades. In the darkness, he makes speeches, imagines music. After a while he feels the risk of insanity too near, decides to kill himself. But his finger nails are not yet sharp enough to open a vein; he tries to sharpen them on the wall, then sees he will have to let them grow a little longer. Finally he hears a tapping on the wall, makes out the fragment of a message: TAKE COURAGE ONE CAN ... The message is interrupted by the muffled noises of guards beating someone; there...
...University is basing its claims this week upon two diverting features and a reasonable suspicion that exams sharpen the movie-urge. The featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece is the now familiar "Give Us This Night" which offers the pleasing voice and ever so charming person of Miss Gledys Swarthout singing her way through a Neopolitan opera romance. She is considerably abetted by Jan Kiepara...
...offices some 6,000 employes, promptly cut off the payroll, sat down at their desks and wondered whether it would be constitutional for them to sharpen their pencils. No one gave them advice. There was peace along the Potomac, the peace that arises on those infrequent occasions when politicians admit that some thing surpasses their understanding. Not a Republican voice rose to chant triumphantly that Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Not a Democratic voice promised that Humpty Dumpty would be put to gether again. "No news on that today," was all that the White House...