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There's an old saying: "Whats in a name?" that has been going the rounds for a good many years now, But whoever wrote that never went to Harvard. Because right here in Cambridge there is exactly $4600 in the right name--especially if it's Murphy...
...only real English dish, the people's food in the real sense of the word, is sweetmeats. Everyone in England, old or young, male or female, eats sweets. There are almost as many sweet shops as tobacconists. Sweetstuffs spoil the appetite, which is their principal object; whoever believes they taste good, like German sweets, is making a mistake. English sweets taste solely like sugar or chocolate. They can drug gnawing hunger and at the same time spoil the teeth (about 50% of the people over 40 years of age in England have false teeth...
...families are the older families. These differences are obvious, Mr. Hale thinks, because they are superficial. Deep-down, he assures us, Harvard and Yale are the same. Fundamental are the campus credos, "that a fraternity may be childish, but a Senior Society or an Eating Club is sacred . . . that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success...
...that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. . . . Nevertheless-and I speak from a long experience-the effective maintenance of American neutrality depends today, as in the past, on the wisdom and determination of whoever at the moment occupy the offices of President and Secretary of State." ¶ A visit to Binghamton, N. Y., another flood region, where he made another automobile tour and encountered the only lukewarm reception on his trip...
Each velocity dollar is dated with the week of its issue and has 104 spaces to each of which a stamp is to be affixed. Whoever holds the bill for more than a week must buy a 1? stamp from the Alberta Government for each week the certificate is out of circulation and stick it onto his dollar to keep it up-to-date. After two years, when all 104 stamps have been affixed at a total cost of $1.04, the velocity dollar can be turned in at the Alberta Treasury and exchanged for a regular Canadian dollar...