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...suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse and forceful thought beneath a lively flow of front-page vulgarity; where the Sun, heavy but active, moves with a great gloom upon its brow?among these the Post seeks to stand as the incarnation of corporeal perfection and easy omniscience, relying upon its presence...
Even The Morning Post, in an ironical vein, philosophized: "He will fill the position of Lord President of the Council and leader in the House of Lords with the dignity to which we have become so well accustomed; and, if toes continue to be trodden on, we have the consolation of knowing that the injured feelings of a Peer are, after all, less important than the resentment of an ally...
...story, present both sides with equal eloquence, and then not answer it. In this case, the question has something to do with the relative values of the post-War generation and those that came before it. As fiction, this volume is not in its author's happiest vein. It is the latest and probably the least interesting addition to that formidable series, The Forsyte Saga. Mr. Galsworthy neither knows nor understands completely the society he is discussing. He is not himself a modern, and he is not in sympathy with modernism. Thus his study is lacking in force...
...Much attention has recently been given to the problem method of instructions in schools of business. I believe this method has been of great vein and in our new building we shall have a greater opportunity for laboratory methods. Full test will be made of the problem or case system, since the text book and lecture method leads to the most and kind of teaching...
...properly proportioned−the "normal saline solution" frequently injected after hemorrhages−can act as substitute for a considerable quantity of blood. A balanced amount of this is contained in the tube of the artificial kidney so that the blood, entering, pushes the solution ahead of it into the vein at the receiving end. 2) How is the blood to be cleansed without any halt in its passage through the tube? By the substance of the tube itself, which is made of a porous material called celloidin. This is permeable to certain solids, among them mineral poisons, which it absorbs...