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...other end of the war would at once be undertaken by Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian dynast, who could not afford to let Shansi fall into Feng's clutch...
...this Lynn church wishes to extend his new idea to cover ethical and social problems, only animated cartoons will be found unsuitable. It may be assumed that at least a few of the Lynn Methodists did not approve, last Sunday evening: and the curator of the local cemetery might afford an interesting interview on how much he was disturbed by the tumbling and tossing of the church's founders in their century-old graves...
...much time can you afford to spend away from your studies in such extra-curricular work? No one can tell you. It is an individual problem and a problem that each student must solve if he is to attain his ultimate goal of self-discovery. It is a problem just as real in later life as in college. Most men live and die without ever knowing their capacity. Here lies the greatest benefit to be had from outside activities. The wise student will use them to this end, will make the proper adjustment between his studies and his other interests...
...Germany certainly has no desire for the development of European economic life on the basis of high tariff. Germany, however, cannot go the way of general tariff reduction or even the entire removal of tariff barriers which perhaps alone would be sufficient to afford relief from the world's distress, as long as other countries which confront us with far greater economic and political power maintain a decided system of protective tariffs...
...book written for the headier, readier, unsteadier sheep at the intellectual outskirts of the Roman fold, False Prophets will be found strong tonic by the sheep of other folds. For the ranging wolves of Agnosticism it will afford mettlesome opposition...