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...incident. If he has thought of the effect on the great colonial powers were his tribesmen, savage, and untutored in modern military strategy, to defeat the well equipped, tactically superior legions of Rome. Does he not know that the white nations most powerful in Africa will look with deep concern on this native triumph? That prominent Britons will look askance at this hitherto unconsidered puissance which commands the Lake Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa? Can he not realize that maintaining a strong and independent native African state and at the same time showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call to this chair a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy. This vital subject has to do, I take it, with the fundamental principles which govern human affairs, as they concern the State and as they concern individuals. Political economy concerns itself as much with the behavior of man as a social animal as it does with any known laws of industry and trade and agriculture and finance. And when I speak of fundamental principles I do not mean old principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Social Animal | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...some 50 companies, most of which are known only to the people who buy trucks. Many have a distinctly regional flavor. Brockway Motor is strong in the Northeast. Kleiber of San Francisco, Moreland of Burbank, Kenworth of Seattle, distribute on the Pacific Coast. Corbitt Co. is a North Carolina concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trucks | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...questions which are to be submitted tomorrow concern old age pensions, safe driving regulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Comparative Poll on Current Events and Leading Political Questions Begins Tomorrow Throughout Harvard | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...also common knowledge among professors and instructors in charge of the larger elementary courses that these abridgements are being used to an extent which has become of great concern to the college authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Tutoring Schools Give Reviews for 4,000 Word Critical, Personal Book Review in Phil B | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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