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...determine the characters and ideas of the founders in relation to those which were influencing England at that same time. Realizing that little that took place in America at that time "can be construed as American" he writes to give "an unbiased approach to the colonies from the standpoint of their origin...
...daily news sheet, from the subject to allow his percent to be taken, through the developing printing and enlarging, to the final of the out itself. Under the careful and guidance of experienced editors the candidate is gives the results of which are criticized both from the standpoint of technique and results obtained...
...depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...
Such a system should at least be worth trying. It is open to considerable argument whether from a strictly curricular standpoint most undergraduates would gain thereby. On its social aspect, however, the plan has a certain appeal. Each college might act as an antidote for the more unfortunate features of the other. A better balanced product might very possibly result...
...this was fortunate for motormen not only from the standpoint of profits but of privileges. The motor industry has become the prize pupil in Franklin D. Roosevelt's school of Recovery. The growth of automobile business helps to relieve unemployment, helps to keep the steel mills busy, helps to use up the surplus of gasoline, helps to make profits for manufacturers of tires and many another accessory. For all these things the Administration is thankful. Some of its gratitude was publicly acknowledged last month when the automobile code came up for renewal. Motormen were determined to continue the merit...