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...present the supposition seems to be that a man having once passed through the academic mill with sufficient credit is thereby automatically entitled to become the incumbent of a swivel chair from which to dispense his accumulated lore. Too many section men regard the expounding of text-books as their highest teaching mission and make no display whatever of the originality and imagination that is supposed to be theirs by virtue of their attainments. Yet because of the distribution and concentration requirements there is no escaping them. A few undergraduates, more fortunate than the rest, are aware of the heights...
Professor Abbott is perfectly comfortable, perfectly at home on the lecture platform. He seats himself in a swivel chair, places his notes and his elbows on the desk, gives vent to a sigh, perhaps even a puff, and begins. Fifteen minutes contain a dignified, non-irritating drone, dedicated to the fact that Gladstone had gained a reputation as a great minister of finance. Then there may be an interruption. The professor will rub his eyes. He will give assurances that the following story is amusing. The story will consume five minutes. There will be renewed assurances that the story...
General looting began when the offices of the Heraldo de Cuba, long the leading Machado news organ, were stormed by a crowd so reckless that typewriters, swivel chairs and even desks were tossed out of windows, injuring mobsters in many cases. After wrecking Heraldo de Cuba's presses and setting fire to the building, exultant citizens stormed the residential quarter of Havana, sacking mansion after mansion, wrecking automobiles and stealing everything movable from the house of Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara. Signs marking General Machado Avenue were torn down for a distance of three miles, the imposing Machado Monument...
...plan for diverting into a useful channel his disciple's hot-bloodedness, ambition and ability as an organizer. He told him to learn to fly, gave him the Undersecretariat of Air. Disgruntled were famed Italian flyers who thought they rated the job. But Undersecretary Balbo was no swivel, chair cabinet officer. He learned to fly ably. He developed the navigation school at Orbetello and a high speed school at Lake Garda where trim Macchi seaplanes lately wrested the world's speed record (423 m.p.h.) from Great Britain. He developed a system of six airlines on which...
...bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet, Lee Weinstein was found. He had been shot seven times in the stomach, chest, neck and face. None in the neighborhood had seen the murderer come...