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...Chicago is an excrescence of the Middle Ages which can exist only in the world's most Tory-ridden country. He who would destroy all that Chicago stands for would uproot the African jungles and plant a dirty Birmingham or Bradford in its place. Let us leave Chicago alone as something which we thought died out in the old days, and be surprised at its coming alive again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debate | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...northwestern Nebraska these worms wheat annually destroy a negligible amount of wheat- perhaps destroy a 50 acres. But already this year 1,000 acres have been leveled in that area. Therefore last week Nebraska farmers were to be seen at a strange occupation. They were spreading bran mash, poisoned with Paris green or white arsenic, throughout their wheat fields. It is a well-known cutworm remedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wheat Cutters | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...force Germany to moderation and to keep her within the League of Nations. If the League says there is a conflict with existing treaties, and if Austria and Germany insist upon having the economic alliance, there will be great danger for the League. Germany has the power to destroy the League. If Germany withdraws the League may be finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Must Have Unity in Europe," Declares Professor E. J. Vermeil in Crimson Interview---Discusses Politics in Europe | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

Those who supervise the change from the present to the imminent system should act with boldness tempered by the realization that their policy may destroy the work already accomplished in the building of an organization of athletics in which there is room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE ATHLETICS | 4/7/1931 | See Source »

...least logically comprehensible that the University should want to destroy Appleton in order to build a chapel twice its size, though it is gratifying to know that we will be spared this "balancing" of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Childs Play | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

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