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...largest single diploma in the archives belonged to James Bowdoin of the class of 1771, later governor of the Commonwealth, and measures 24 by 13 inches. Contrasted to the is the smallest, 11 by 5 1/2 inches, which is also the oldest one in the collection, having been presented to George Alcock...
...regard to taxes. Always one jump ahead of his opponents, President Roosevelt foresaw months ago that Republicans would campaign against him for his heavy deficits. In his January budget message he made his defense, drew an encouraging picture of a 1937 deficit of only half a billion dollars, smallest of the Depression. That picture was possible because he postponed estimating the amounts needed for Relief, took no notice of the Bonus Bill that Congress was about to pass, and did not anticipate the unconstitutionally of AAA processing taxes...
...radically different dance took root first in Germany shortly before the War when Rudolf von Laban propounded his theory that the important thing was free, inspired movement regardless of its form, that music was unnecessary, at best a mere appendage to real dynamic feeling. Laban theorized down to the smallest detail, studied movements in relation to character and mental attitudes. First to give his ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself...
Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska...
Although it is but one third of a mile in diameter and is the smallest heavenly body known, the recently discovered "Delporte object" is now found to be an asteroid, or small planet, according to an announcement, made yesterday by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...