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...much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they want to know how their parents acted at about the same age, they may never get a better chance to find...
...backtrack in a hurry. Appalled by the prospect of alumni disappointed at finding nary a ripple left in the indoor pool, they have again changed the time, and pushed the swimming meet back on top of the hockey game. But still it's not too late to straighten things out. The majority of those who intend to come, the great block of undergraduate sports followers and outsiders really interested in the teams, can be reached through adequate publicity, and given a chance to see both of these events. It is reassuring to know that the H. A. A. is planning...
...Government of London could do little overtly to straighten out the difficulties of these self-governing units. But there was also increasing trouble in a corner of the Empire which does not run itself, and here London could and did decidedly act. At New Delhi, lavish capital of India, a little skinny man dressed in homespun cotton garments, with a shawl drooped around his shoulders, passed through the imposing gates of The Viceroy's House...
...Ghost-is the principle of dialectical materialism, which in Marxist eyes explains the working of the world, the whole of human history. In the U. S. S. R. practically all the biological sciences, including anthropology, must conform to this principle. Lately Soviet scientists have made a special effort to straighten out the kinks of genetic theory (explanations of the heredity mechanism in the germ cells) along lines of Marxist rectitude (TIME, June...
...established price for a review is $2.50 an hour, but each student is asked to pay only what he can afford. It is difficult to say how much time is required to straighten out problems, but Salmen stated that a $10 charge is unusual...