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...place with the earliest formulators of socialistic principle. Socialists of the stamp of Russean and Babeux, for instance, saw in their rather visionary conceptions of a commonalty of mankind the most complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society on an economic basis. Capital and capitalists became powerful factors in the realm, with a corresponding depression of the lower classes. Socialism as conceived by these early philosophiers was an ideal whose...
Landing at Shanghai, Colonel Thompson and his entourage sped to Peking without accident, saw there the blazing blue-tiled Temple of Heaven, and the Forbidden City, now moldering with decay. Returning to Shanghai, there to take ship for Japan, Colonel Thompson was informed that no sooner had his train passed the railway bridge just south of Nanking than it was dynamited, wrecking a subsequent train...
...Teeth. "Decay of the teeth is prevalent in 80% to 85% of the people. . . . After rigid investigation we have definitely concluded that the decay of the teeth is specific infection, just as specific as tuberculosis or typhoid fever. Cleaning the teeth will not prevent decay, but will lessen the possibility of it. Decay is accentuated chiefly by the excessive eating of sugar," said Professor Russell W. Bunting of Michigan University before the same meeting...
Like all critics of the status quo, and they are essential preventatives of innocuous decay, Dr. Kirkpatrick has found an ill without finding a cure other than one so remote as to exist in the and of dreams. While the faculty is a group of specialists in learning, while the undergraduate is attempting to gain some conception of what that learning means to his world and to him, there is little time for administrative functioning...
...Smyrna, once called "The Golden," now recovering slowly from a vile decay, 13 men wrote busily last week each his last will and testament...