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...radio reporters in Berlin were last week denied the "cooperation" of the Reichsrundfunk Gesellschaft (German Radio Co.): i.e., put off the air sine die. This looked like a Nazi effort to throw the last punch, because two of the correspondents (Mutual's Dickson, NBC's Dreier) had already refused to broadcast and the third (CBS's Smith) was on the point of doing so. Their more or less fed-up opinion...
...scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps. His marks were only middling and he disliked the classics, then the sine qua non of Harrovian scholarship...
...dress rehearsal for the Senior thesis was worth while. Their sole complaint has been that the extra work was an unfair burden to impose on only part of the Juniors busy with review for divisionals. And there is the further gain that under the proposed plan not even sine cum laude candidates can slip out of Harvard without at least once having faced a lengthy problem demanding originality of thought and clarity of expression...
Fourth, your greenback will go in part toward aiding needy students on Council Scholarships. The Council grants are not like those given by the University; they're not for the Dean's List kiddies. They're for the boys who are worthwhile keeping as Harvard men even sine PBK. More than $2,000 every year goes into this fund...
Some of these manufacturers have got rid of their button-sewing machines, would have to retool if slide fasteners were cut off. Some of them make products (like trick keycases, children's snowsuits, etc.) to which slide fasteners were a sine qua non. To replace all fasteners would, Talon estimates, take 1,300,000,000 buttons a year-and on Arthur's desk were orders from companies he had never heard of before, which wanted fasteners because they were already having trouble getting enough buttons...