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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed its Army builders began to ask: What use was the fortress? Finding no answer, they quietly left the great pile unmanned and unarmed, went about other business...
...instead were police when they found the pair waiting with submachine guns in their hands. After the desperadoes had shot their way free, two women whom they had left behind confessed that one of the men was Alvin Karpis. Up & down the Atlantic seaboard flashed the order: "Shoot on sight...
Newsworthy were three other proposals in President Conant's report: ¶Many a scholar retreats into his own specialty, loses sight of outside progress. President Conant would appoint a select corps of "professors without portfolio'' to bridge the artificial gaps which over-specialization leaves between fields of study. "We need a certain number of university professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations...
...point is not so much that the evils are inherent in the System as that they are developing through the weakness of a few individuals. Time and again systems far loss significant than the tutorial have been harmed in their development because the long range goal has been lost sight of in the face of immediate dangers. There is no reason why Tutorial Aims cannot be achieved if each Department is empowered to weed out the unfit among both students and instructors...
...slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact that she is "not a lady," that she has a far-off husband with whom she does not get along, a precarious job as a style-illustrator, she begins writing him love-letters even before they are introduced. Her resistance to his seduction is merely formal, slightly complicated by the unexplained facts of her married...