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...second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years. On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum. "At that time," he declared last week, "my government will address the country respecting the new laws [said to envision merely the creation of an advisory Assembly, with Parliament continuing suppressed]. . . . These measures will be submitted to a national plebiscite...
...attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation of men who have realized its too actual brevity when reviewed later by a graduate nostalgic from bond-selling or cupon-clipping...
Amid renewed cheers and cries of "Hear! Hear!" Mr. Chamberlain then laid down a program for the creation by the Ministry of Health of two Departmental Committees of Inquiry, one to perform comprehensive field research upon maternal mortality, and the other to investigate "the status, training and remuneration of midwives . . . upon whom, after all, the success or failure of any efforts we may make to improve the conditions of childbirth must largely depend...
...lives in Detroit, its terminal city), is a bold act. Not since the financially riotous null and 1880's which brought the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887) and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) has an important railroad dared be so intimate with the press...
Naturally enough, the first half of the book, dealing with the astronomy, geology and biology of the earth's creation, is far more satisfying than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking...