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Senator Reed of Missouri: "The President's argument on the World Court is at war with the facts. It is at best, a specimen of special pleading, and, I think, from premise to conclusion utterly unsound...
...French school is represented by Fragonard, Meryon, Berthe Morison, Renoir Legros, lithographs by Ingres and Dannier, and potraits by Nanteuil. There is a characteristic etching by Goya, the Spaniard, and among the Italians there is a specimen of Canaletto...
...specimen: "It [the Jordan 'Playboy' Roadster] is a wonderful companion for a wonderful girl and a wonderful boy. . . . It's a shame to call it a roadster. . . . This brawny thing with the vigor of boyhood and morning...
...with his disciple's disgust, the suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into an institution of learning in place of a good tight paddock where impetuous young men may be kept for four years to run about much as they please without serious...
...TIME, June 22 et seq.), last week crossed icy Davis Strait to Jack Lane's Bay, Labrador. The Bow-doiris forecastle was awash, a 400-lb. drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings...