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...will be cut off instanter. This was the one card which Franklin Roosevelt had to play against war but there were other cards that he might play for peace-perhaps a promise of better trade relations, perhaps a reciprocal trade agreement, possibly even recognition of the conquest of Ethiopia (the U. S. yet addresses Vittorio Emanuele as "King," not "King and Emperor...
...Allied Supreme War Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under...
...Liberty," said Sumner, "is not a boon, it is a conquest, and if we ever get any more, it will be because we make it or win it." He fought the sentimentality and venality of the Gilded Age, wrote his revolutionary Folkways (1906) to show the determining effect of social customs on conduct. "His conviction," says Gabriel, "was that the forlorn and probably futile hope of democracy was that the men who profess it should understand what they are doing...
Harassed by bad weather and bad luck the lacrosse team dropped two games to Stevens Institute and the West Pointers respectively last week. But these defeats belie the potential strength of Coach Johnnie Wither-spoon's ten, and they should begin to click again in this afternoon's conquest...
...successful scientific enterprise usually begins as a dream. Then there is a turning point at which it ceases to be a dream, begins to take on the lineaments of reality. The point may be the conquest of a crucial technical obstacle-as when Corning Glass Works succeeded in casting a 20-ton glass disc for Caltech's 200-inch telescope. Or it may be a crucial matter of dollars. Last week University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, newest U. S. Nobel Prizeman, passed such a turning point when it was disclosed that the Rockefeller Foundation would give...