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...opinion among certain opposition sages that the Premier would be obliged to use his threat; for it was and is thought improbable that the Conservative Senators (majority group) will stoop to swallow the pie made for them by Chef King. The latter may repeat in vain that there is no pie like his, be it ever so humble...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...
Prof. Takayanagi of Tokyo University,* in the U. S. to solicit funds for his alma mater, knocked not in vain at the door of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He had asked for financial aid on behalf of his university library, which was partially destroyed by the great Earthquake of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.), and in which 800,000 books were destroyed...
...have nevertheless climbed within reaching distance of it. The last reported sale of a seat on the "Big Board" was for $108,000-an advance of $5,000 over the previous sale. Moreover, it is said that $110,000 has been subsequently bid for a Stock Exchange seat in vain...
...advantage of this itinerary is that it covers a populated area and a part of the world where there are already established observatories; too frequently eclipses take place in inaccessible places, where astronomical equipment has to be taken at great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes...