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Chief significance of Dr. Machen's new Church, which will probably not subtract more than a few thousand members from the parent organization, is that it liquidates him as ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...
...gave you an uneven number. Speedometers register only in tenths of a mile; so you forget the numbers after the decimal point and multiply again by 1,010 for the key number. From there on it's a cinch. All you have to do is to add or subtract 101 as many times as you want and put in those totals for entries. It had to come out in one of those units...
...handy rule of thumb for the new scoring: to compute non-vulnerable doubled penalties, multiply the number of undertricks by 200, subtract 100; for vulnerable doubled penalties, multiply by 300, subtract...
...Townsend Plan would have meant that for every dollar anyone spent in a store this year he would have had to pay an additional 70? tax. . . . Anyone can figure out for himself the minimum that the Townsend Plan would cost him; he has only to subtract about two-fifths from his expenditures...
...will reveal to you the scores of this afternoon's most important games. But first let me refer you back to the uncanny precision of my prophecies of last week. True it is that I forecast Harvard 26, Dartmouth 13, but my most understanding followers were wise enough to subtract the magic numbers of 16 and 6 respectively in order to get the correct score. (However, today I will prognosticate so that the simpler ones among you may know the outcomes before the games are played...