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...listeners with great rolling periods like this: "What they [Germany's allies] do not see or realize is the capacity of the ancient and mighty nations against whom Germany is warring to endure adversity, to put up with disappointment and mismanagement, to recreate and renew their strength, to toil on with boundless obstinacy through boundless suffering to the achievement of the greatest cause for which men have ever fought...
...reaches the West coast at 4:30 Pacific Standard Time. The recording will then be transmitted over a "platter" network of seven NBC-Blue Coast stations at 8:30 p. m., Pacific Time, when most of the potential West Coast Canada Dry mixers have come home from golf or toil...
...their cramming. And again, because such tutoring mocks Harvard's standards and degrades her degree, it should be exterminated. If the tutoring is by Wolff, let the diploma be by Wolff, but not by Harvard. It is further undesirable because it destroys initiative and the will to honest toil; because it makes students lazily dependent upon a crutch they would not otherwise...
Institutionalized advertising takes its form in such ads as Manter Hall saying, "Ask Dad, Ask Grand-dad About the Widow's." A University Tutoring School ad deplored the oppressiveness of college work as follows; "midnight oil; loathesome toil." Wolff's displays a robed Senior with the caption; "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...
There are good folk-dancing and singing in Everywhere I Roam, and fine pictorial moments. But the play itself is dull, and its message is hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...