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...conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
Private tutoring schools, like private business of any sort, thrive under competition. It is this very competition which insures the casual or regular patron surprisingly high standards, and usually full value for the price demanded. For this reason the denunciation of private tutoring by the University and the substitution of college-run reviews would probably fail to approach the standards set under the present system. Monopoly has a tendency to deteriorate and there is no reason to expect the University to be exempt from this law. Therefore, the ideal would seem to be a set standard for tutoring, approved...
...Francisco opening a dapper Italian mounted the conductor's stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed...
Precipitous drops in the U. S. pecan harvest are nothing new but growers do not agree on reasons. Some say that nut pests thrive so well on a good crop that they appear in legions to infest the next one. Some say that rain did not fall at the right time, others that "pecan trees are just that...
...thrive...