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...second reason why the Committee is "angry and jealous" is that the idea of protesting election by minority vote is "an example of sore head thinkings." The Crimson adds, "An election cannot be repeated any more than a horserace." (Sic !). It should be sufficient to point out that run-off elections are the rule, not the exception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...those who feel as we do to refrain from voting at all. Perhaps by our very silence, the insignificance of these planned and plotted elections will be apparent. You can fool some of the people some of the time . . . but four years of subtle tyranny is too much. Sic semper tyrrannis. T. Ryden Skinner '38. Jay W. Kaufmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

...Sic transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

...Sic transit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAKESPEARE NOT SHAKSPERE NAMED AS CORRECT SPELLING | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...head of a white weasel." A medicine show proprietor asked for something that he could exhibit as human tapeworms, explaining that the egg noodles he had been using swelled and lost their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories of General Electric and Westinghouse buy rare minerals. Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ward's | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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