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...Lorenz returned to the U. S. two months ago (TIME. Jan. 18). He came boldly. Withal in the back of his mind was memory of distress. On his previous visit in 1921 and 1922 the U. S. medical profession had thrown such obloquy over him that for a time his good humor became only a mask. He had come to repay with his surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure...
...removed from mediaeval romance, this is the twentieth-century idyll of rather grubby people. They have the small virtues of their ilk, well exemplified by the excellent Mrs. Nodden, and withal are honest, kindly, and thoroughly bourgeoisie. In spite of some seeming inconsistencies, they are clearly depicted, and the story of their very English, their very middle-class, mutual relations pulls its own weight. In these days of morbid writing, it is a pleasure to find a book whose pages leave one with an assurance of the existence and eternal value of simple goodness...
...with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many vacant benches at his first lecture. So with theological students they packed the auditorium. They need not have done so, for he was so self-confident, withal so modest in his pretensions, so serene, so famed already that for that first lecture and for all others during the subsequent quarter century he never lacked a full audience. They liked him. They lived by the principles he taught. They came to him, priesthood and laity, so much that...
...Withal, they wrapped him round and round to be a perfect mummy, and lifted him into a box heavy as lead but golden, wherein they also put innumerable amulets of beauty and ghostly merit, as well as two swords, jewel-studded...
...fact stowed away in the brain. Then there will be an end of college failures, for every one knows, theory to the contrary notwithstanding, that examinations test only facts. Parents will he delighted. Students will need to study only twice a year, and them in one's sleep. And withal, the Dean's list will read like the Register...