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...cannot permit my old boyhood home town of Fargo to be shorn of any of her glory, for she has performed this trick twice. Back somewhere in the go's the best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case...
...only potential geniuses. The best possibility for a satisfactory solution of the difficulty probably lies in an accentuation of the difference in standards which already exists among colleges. Those which are unambitious in intellectual lines can still fill a great demand, and probably a great need, for "college life," shorn of its worst absurdities. Those which aspire to produce great intellectual leaders can do so far more effectively by concentrating on that one thing. It means sacrificing nine tenths of what constitutes college life at present, including things which may be as valuable as purely mental growth...
...chaste lambs,? fresh from their blessing in St. Agnes' Church, last week gazed at His Holiness, he blessed them again, patted them. Thereupon they were led away to be coddled and permitted to lie asleep in laps of legends old until Easter. Then they would be shorn and killed. Their white wool will be woven into pallia, the circular bands two inches wide with two twelve-inch pendants, which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates, archbishops...
...interview the day before his committee report was released. He said: "If Communism is a trial, so also is Capitalism. ... It is up to the Capitalist system to clean its Augean stables and divest itself of some of its manifestations of greed, inhumanity and reaction. ... I believe in Capitalism shorn of its abuses and ugly greed to exploit labor for the Almighty Dollar...
...tourists have snitched from Hill No. 60 nearly everything snitchable. Meanwhile what was David Lloyd George doing last week? Age cannot sap his energy nor custom stem the torrent of his words and plans. In London he went to his barber, emerged in a new and startling nakedness shingled & shorn of the traditional Lloyd Georgian mop. Spruce as ever he addressed a Liberal rally at Stowmarket-nothing special, just all in the year's work. It so happened that British unemployment came up another 120,000 this month to 2,139,000, but any number over...