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...large campuses have little groups of earnest and not badly informed serious thinkers bewildering themselves about the modern world, but their influence on the tone of the campus is as narrow as that of the local Phi Beta Kappa. . . . There is hardly a trace of it in the Mississippi Valley...
...Hoffman, who on the side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into...
...Follette-Frank ouster, the spectacle presented was that of one celebrated Progressive steamrollering another. Had Phil La Follette been a Tory Governor, the outcry from U. S. Liberals would undoubtedly have been prodigious, for along with his smooth exterior and the careful polish which has removed all trace of his native Queen City, Mo.. Glenn Frank has. with facile tongue and pen, built up for himself a shining reputation as a clear-sighted, forward-looking, modern-minded Thinker...
...steam railroad mileage was in the hands of the courts. "Poor financial structures and unwise surplus and dividend policies were chiefly responsible for the failure of some of these companies and were contributing factors in the failure of most of them," observed the Commissioners. Many a road could trace its grief to the fact that it was "handicapped from the beginning by financial structures overloaded with funded debt which was not reduced in good times." To assure more provident procedure in the future. I. C. C. had adopted the policy of insisting upon sinking funds in all railroad reorganization plans...
...paints it with iodine. If the cervix is healthy, the iodine makes the surface turn blue. If there is the slightest trace of cancer, that spot will turn white. Dr. Schiller urged all adult women to have the iodine test every six months, at least once a year...