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When the Crusaders came to Cambridge last year, their football fortunes were as low as the bottom of the sea. They had just absorbed three jolts out of their first four tries, something unheard of in football at the little South Worcester Institution, and they were counting on nothing less than a victory over Harvard to snap them out of this spin...
...Sociologist. He had opinions about labor. In 1914, the country was flabbergasted when he established an unheard-of minimum $5-a-day wage and a profit-sharing scheme. Good pay makes good workers, he said. Well-paid workers could buy more cars. So many thousands stormed his gates for jobs that Ford officials had fire hoses turned on them. But there were moral strings attached to the profit-sharing. He appointed the dean of St. Paul's to see that the money went into wholesome food, Ford cars, etc.-not into liquor and riotous living...
...likes to listen to the radio and go out dancing gets nothing better and settles for what it gets. When something original and interesting comes along, such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others, but the tinkling of the each rolling in remains unheard by publishers and song-writers in their mad effort to turn out "For Sentimental Reasons" a hundred times a year. The deaf sport is in Tin Pan Alley's car, not the public...
Ulysses-banned in the U.S. until 1933, when a federal court declared that its incidental obscenities did not make it an obscene book-was hard enough. Finnegans Wake (1939), Joyce's 'final work, written in a dream language of outrageous puns and unheard-of syntax, was a great deal harder; it could not be read, in the ordinary sense-it had to be unraveled...
...afternoon. Was something going on-something more than met the eye? Journalism's nearsighted eyes could not see much of anything. But those who claimed to have the right kind of spectacles reported tremendous activity. They said the devil was as busy as ever-though he was invisible, unheard, and, in fact, to hear most people tell it, nonexistent...