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...imagine almost all of us have been in a submarine," said he in his best Baptist-meeting voice, "We admire its ingenuity and its wonderful technique but we are bound to observe that the lack of space, involving long periods of being unable to stand upright, with vitiated atmosphere very often when submerged, are hardly in keeping with the improved conditions for industrial workers which we now all of us consistently urge at Geneva...
...bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion, he was intensely busy?and intensely happy. Within a few days, God willing, he would become the eleventh Chief Justice...
Delhi, in southeastern New York, contains some 2,000 souls, is known as "The Village Beautiful" and its main street is concreted and curbed. It has six churches, and last week many of its churchgoers were proud. Reason: in one week two upright sons of Delhi had become newsworthy U. S. divines...
...Auburn, N. Y., Pasquale Camellera accidentally killed a woman when shooting at a man he disliked. Last week, waiting to be electrocuted at Sing Sing, Pasquale Camellera went on a hunger strike, spent his time sitting upright on a chair and waving his hands...
Another evidence of the University's upright attitude is her attempt to enforce literally a "four square" policy upon the denizens of Widener by making them execute right angle turns in their perambulations to the library. Not only does the management of the snow-shovelers brigade wait until the snow on Widener's steps has packed into ice, but it insists on clearing only the central wooden approach...