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...second plan would be to offer more courses in off-years. By taking time for a year, the lecturer could give increased tutorial instruction. Another plan would shrink regular sections down the size of an ordinary tutorial meeting...
...about Scarcroft's blazing floodlights, its elaborate wrought-iron gateway and its superb kitchen reached the receptive ears of Tory Donald Kaberry, M.P. Kaberry denounced Lapper and his board in the House of Commons as "little tsars of the government's creation [who] build their Kremlins . . . and shrink from the wrath of public opinion." The Attorney General ordered an investigation...
Tradition Smasher. Gary had not only let the empire shrink; its plants had grown antiquated. To scurf the rust, the House of Morgan brought in Lawyer Myron C. Taylor, who had made $20 million, while still a young man, by putting rickety textile firms back on their feet. Taylor paid off $340 million of Big Steel's bonded debt just before the 1929 crash, thus enabling it to live through the depression, when-for the first time-it lost money. Taylor modernized equipment and, more importantly, changed Big Steel's labor relations...
Even in a story with scores of human actors, Ericson and Lockhart stand out as sharp, deeply drawn characters. Ericson, an easygoing veteran of the merchant service, hardens slowly into a killer as cold as a shark. He does not lose his humanity, but it shrinks up inside him like a dried pea. Lockhart is a richer and more appealing nature. He hardens in authority but he does not shrink. He broadens and deepens in his knowledge of men, and at the end, he not only can bear the weight of war, but can shoulder a home-base love affair...
Cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Bureau Chief Robert Neville last week: "Red China is in deep trouble. Early enthusiasm for the Red regime has now turned to sullen resentment, distrust and despair. The educated and the articulate seem to shrink away in shame and disgust from events over which they can have no control. If those Chinese who escape to Hong Kong are judges, a widespread disaffection has set in. Many people are certain that were it not for the secret police and the firing squad, hatred for the Peking government would soon spark into action...