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...versions of what they have to tell, their usefulness will cease." In 16 chapters, two volumes, 924 pages, he takes a quick, keen look at the economic world-scene, comes to the melioristic conclusion that "this adventure may continue and our race survive." Some of the chapter-headings : The Conquest of Distance; of Hunger; of Climate; How Goods are Bought and Sold; Why People Work; How-Work is Paid for and Wealth Accumulated ; The Governments of Mankind and Their Economic and Military Warfare. Up-to-date, Mr. Wells has included a section on The Suspension of the Gold Standard...
...There have been no other people," said Professor Nordal, "who have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...
...Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
Beyond question the ability to converse in the tongue being studied is of inestimable advantage in the ultimate conquest of that nation's culture. One can not fully appreciate the literature of a people, unless one can write and speak the language of that people with some degree of proficiency, and thus realize the difficulties as well as the possibilities the language presents. Moreover, for the study of poetry, especially that of modern poets whose effects depend in a large measure on subtle cadences, an appreciation of the rhythmical and onomatopoetic peculiarities is essential...
...plans to take his seat in the House of Lords, where his peers will probably give him a chilly reception. Well-known is he as author of many a book not calculated to give aid & comfort to orthodoxy: Roads to Freedom, Philosophy, Sceptical Essays, Marriage and Morals, The Conquest of Happiness...