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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negative side of the picture is not unknown. Often the phrase "half a lifetime being educated" crops up. But more than that, suppose a graduate student spends his early twenties being educated and manages to secure a job. What then of the end result; is his income necessarily and measurably more comfortable than that of the unadorned college graduate? Or perhaps, after he has had graduate work and becomes a job-holder, there may be five years "with a reputable firm" on a pittance which is not by any stroke of the imagination a living wage. The architect is often...
...Jagel, Brooklyn-born tenor from the Metropolitan Opera. Highest-priced singer was Rosa Raisa, whose Jewish blood helped her to look the part of Leah. Even so, her top notes were raspy, often insecure. The singer who did best by the English text was Contralto Pauline Pierce, a comparative unknown who took the part of Leah's handmaiden...
...lose all the time, he disobeyed his dressing room order by pinning Champion Danno O'Mahoney in a world championship match. At this testimony Promoter Jack Curley, who with five others rules the wrestling world today, exploded. Such a thing as a "-fixed" match, he yelped, was unknown...
...still on a small salary, and Harvard cannot throw them into the street. Meantime, realizing this situation, tutors and section men worry about their future. The calibre of their work of necessity drops because of insecurity and continual doubt; they are over-tired, inefficient; nervous breakdowns are not unknown...
...with all the petulance of a reprimanded child, he has made his countrymen feel that Italy is in a position to dictate to the world, and has thereby fed them with a sense of self-importance instead of with bread. When Hitler left Geneva he aroused his people to unknown heights of excitement, and gave them that wonderful feeling of having told someone where to "get off". Mussolini is now playing that same old weather-beaten trump and hopes to reap the same reward...