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...German people can no longer be befuddled by such little tricks as your correspondence, you honest British tar...
...were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...
That each generation of undergraduates should exercise its prerogative to tar and feather the teaching staff -- typographically speaking--is a healthy thing, and the most recent essay in that direction, Mr. Bunde's philippic in the Progressive, manifests unusual insight not only into problems of pedagogy but into the larger question of a university's true function. Mr. Bunde, by and large, has done a good job, but the effectiveness of his criticism is blunted by over-indulgence in harsh and intemperate personalisms. There are ways of getting at the same end without resorting to personal abuse...
...Atlanta as a stranger to practice law, he attracted both friends and clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp., he became a Republic director. When in 1932 a change in Koppers management sent John Brookes back to Washington to practice corporation law, he remained a trusted adviser of Republic's present...
...baked southern diamonds and springy turf played havoc with an indoor-trained infield and outfield, and accounted for the dropping of more than one nip-and-tuck slugfest. Weeks ahead of the Crimson players in condition, and playing on home grounds, Tar Heels, Blue Devils, and Middies successively got the breaks to take hard fighting Harvard into camp...