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...Librarian of the City of St. Louis would spend more time trying to make his library an up-to-date institution where one can keep in some sort of half-hazard contact with the progress of the modern mind instead of writing notes to the editor of TIME, he would be of much more benefit to humanity...
...husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital in Manhattan she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Vera (truth). Last week an enterprising reporter of the New York World, unabashed by Mrs. Burnham's admonition ("This is not the sort of thing you would want to put in a newspaper"), gave her story to the world...
...hand in the actual reorganization. In their grudging majority decision, the Commissioners wrote: ". . . We were confronted with two alternatives. The first was to approve in toto the securities proposed . . . the other, to reject them in toto. . . . We should not, however, have been forced to make a choice of this sort...
Physicists, experts on the chemical and physical actions and reactions of the body in health and disease. The other sort of physicists, those who deal with inert matter and motion, may also be called...
...fame exists solely among the "scholar swells" he despised, and that he is absolutely unknown to the commonality of man for whom he professed to write, or that the incredibly ornate pish-posh of Henry James is explained by his belief that legible and comprehensive language of any sort is very vulgar, just, for instance, as an editor of the Harvard Crimson believes that any news anybody could conceivably want to read is very vulgar and therefore unprintable, to point out these is to illuminate the obvious...