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...Archbishop of his church in North America, and hence presiding prelate of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Manhattan. He had with him papers from Russia to prove it. It was in an effort to make clear his position to Platon, the temporary Archbishop, that he had suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen, at once filed suit against Archbishop Platon. Thus began an interminable, ludicrous and involved dispute (TIME...
...this reason that we have thought it wise to suggest, though it is not actually demanded, to contestants that they select us their subject some phase of that life with which they are actually in contact at the time of writing rather than a topic, however great its possibilities, which is totally unrelated to college atmosphere...
...submarine from naval warfare. This incident lends definiteness to the movement current in England against the submarine, caused immediately by a series of submarine disasters in the British, American, and Japanese navies, and fundamentally by the unpleasant experience the British nation had with submarines during the war. Such intimate contact with the German U-boats has evidently warped English public opinion into disregarding other menaces which make the worst type of submarine warfare seem like child's play...
...their race has really very little to complain about. Slavery he said dispassionately, had been a good thing for them. It had given them a chance at civilization long before their time, and whatever troubles they might encounter are the price they must pay for the value of premature contact with something better than their primitive condition in Africa...
...since contact with other nations has brought a modernization into the educational system, exactly the reverse is true. The scholars are as a body radical in the extreme, and yet, through the strength of tradition, they hold their former place in the esteem of the people...