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...seven treaties were cabled, certain of which were so nearly identical that the man in the street may rule-of-thumb them as three: 1) The Rhineland Security Treaty, among Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Germany. 2) An Arbitration Treaty form, which was quadruplicated and signed as four separate treaties by Germany, respectively with France, Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. 3) A form of Guarantee Treaty, duplicated and signed as two separate treaties by France, respectively with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...lived because there is even in the most sophisticated heart the occasional warmth of the chambermaid's love for the "Mayfairs" of life. He dies because there are too many who can satisfy that love fully as well as the affable Mr. Arlen. The thumb of the public is turned down--"A curtain, yes, a curtain to his doings...
Philosophy 1: "This course in elementary logic probably does as much good for the brain as swinging Indian clubs in Hemenway Gymnasium does for the body. And both forms of exercise are equally exciting. The course consists of parroting a number of logical rules-of-thumb by which the valid may be distinguished from the fallacious with as little thought as possible. At the beginning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied his students with a multigraphed outline of these rules, by memorizing which the more receptive of his students received passing grades in the final examination, which was highly logical...
...cannot help feeling also that much injustice is done Dr. Sheffer in the criticism of Philosophy 1. If there is anything he tries to avoid in this course it is the "parrcting a number of logical rules-of-thumb" for which you so harshly condemn him. If any one doubts this let him compare the texts used in Philosophy 1 with the treatises on "formal logic" used in most college courses in logic. Let him also read some of the final examinations which Dr. Sheffer has set in his course in which no rules of logic, no technical knowledge...
Eager farmers, their wives, their boys, their girls, their dependent uncles, aunties, began to thumb last week the new annual catalog of Montgomery Ward & Co. The farmers found themselves more prosperous than last year and they found the catalog correspondingly fatter. It contained 700 pages measuring each 9 x 13 inches. It contained - very like its predecessors-marvelous pictures of skirts, of trousers, of miniature railroads, of horses ready to ride, of chairs ready to sit down in, of frenzied wallpaper, of tombstones, of everything. And the prices? A mere $3.17, or $22.45 including wrapper...