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...Singing Swan", while it suffers from a popular standpoint by its scholastic detail and consequent lengthiness. Is done in the soft, mellow style of "Jane Eyre" and was as the cause with a pleasant image of the "Picturesque Century of brocade and periwig, sedan chair, Chippendale furniture and early Wedgewood...
...book represents an attempt to view Soviet Russia from the standpoint of the newer school of internationalists who believe that a nation's rulers, and consequently her actions, are a product of fundamental forces which transcend the rise and fall of governments. In this the volume succeeds admirably...
...national debt," said Finance Minister Blythe, "of ?115,274,000 represents an increase of ?400,000 above last year's account because of abnormal charges, but from the standpoint of ordinary exchequer transactions the debt fell by ?266,000. The income tax produced ?50,000 more than in the previous year, exceeding the estimate by more than ?250,000 but the liquor tax was disappointing...
...then certainly no one can question the value of those sacrificed lives. Can the names of those mistaken men who fought for a foreign monarch and German Kultur be connected in any way with those who died for "the great cause?" It is hoped the CRIMSON will change its standpoint and try and see this affair in the same light as the University authorities. Robert F. Evans...
...From the standpoint of the layman, it would be difficult to get a description of anything as perilous as a transatlantic flight that would satisfy all. With due regard for the entire crew of an airplane such as the "America", there is bound to be an overshadowing of one man against another when the dangerous hours have ended. The tension under which such flights are carried out, as well as the swiftness of action that is required, make it hard to weigh exactly the relative value of each man to the party, especially since all those concerned...