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...stand and declare themselves, by law the section had to cover Congress too, and all its clerks. Result at week's end: 53 Senators have taken the oath, more than 1,300 House Office Building employes. Representatives, who always approach such things with reluctant feet, have been backward, but they must take the oath by payday, Aug. 1, or they will get no money...
...College, where he ran upstairs two at a time, worked 18 hours a day, his job and the job of the Staff was to direct the work of whipping the Army into fighting shape, to plan field exercises, to keep eyes peeled for new training methods, stupid officers, backward outfits. By October, Artilleryman McNair, recent head of the Army's Command and General Staff School, had his staff clicking, had the field forces of the U.S. molded into four field armies, nine tactical corps, Armored Force, Coast Artillery districts...
Great tongues of flame leap from the sun, a half-million miles into space, sink back and leap again. Sometimes, strangely, clouds of gases appear out of nowhere far above the sun and blazing streamers lick back toward the sun's surface like prankish backward-movies of a high diver. What elements, astronomers have puzzled, form the corona? Where do the backward-flowing flames come from...
...great Italy must have an army, a navy and colonies. But the people who had fought so valiantly for freedom did not care to fight for strange lands; they could not love the African desert as they loved Lombardy and Tuscany. As poor, backward Italy staggered under the weight of military expenditures, her people went off, not to carve out an empire, but to labor in the Western Hemisphere to make enough money to return to Italy to die. Yet the imperial dream persisted...
...destroy [Christianity] by merely showing how old it is. ... The most mystical Christian doctrines . . . appear as commonplaces of savage superstition, sometimes revolting, sometimes in their way sublime. ..." Others were less upset. Wrote John Peale Bishop of The Golden Bough: "By extending [Christianity's] existence into the dark backward and abyss of time, it has gained not only the respectability of age, but another authenticity...