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...farmer, self-educated, Publisher Thomas had a passion for information that was useful to the average man. Once a year for 54 years his almanac came forth to stir the imagination of its readers with notable anniversaries, give them the schedule of sunup and sundown, tell them the value of foreign gold...
University Hall's recent memorandum on the distribution of printed material in the College buildings is a logical development. This past year has seen in dormitory entryways too many smear posters designed to stir up racial prejudice, too much furtive distribution of literary blasts and counter-blasts in the small hours of the morning. For purely practical purposes, then, the Dean's office and the Student Council Committee have done well in attempting to clean house...
...Reporting of the war was weird. Whether for reasons of propaganda or because of overanxious sympathy, Greek advantages were overstated. Successive Greek "victories," when traced on the map, sometimes turned out to be steady Italian advances. A mysterious bombing by Italian-type planes of Bitolj, Yugoslavia, which caused a stir of feeling and was followed by the resignation of the Yugoslavs' anti-Italian Defense Minister, General Milan Neditch, may have been a punishment for grotesquely pro-Greek accounts of the war emanating from Belgrade. Qualities of fantasy crept into the dispatches. The Italians were said to be deserting...
...develop a fanatical nationalism like that of Germany, we should have to put a stop to that sort of thing. As long as Canadian authors contribute to U. S. magazines and U. S. publications circulate in Canada to the extent they do now, it would be quite impossible to stir up a first-class war between our two countries...
...seven years ended 1939, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. made more stir with its streamlined trains than anyone else in the field. But it lost money in the process. Now Budd is busy making ammunition parts, body assemblies for bombs, other war materials-and money. September-quarter profits were $99,000, up from $402,000 loss last year. Full-year earnings will be the largest since...