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...ripe for it. To outsiders it looked as if Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would be a terror, trusted that the people would rise against...
Last week Clem Sohn went up in a plane, jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from...
...course, price control can be used as a weapon of monopoly. It has frequently been so used, and that use of it was the very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...
...During the same period that the proportion of men graduating with honors has increased so markedly, the proportion of undergraduates who have had their connection severed has in general shown a slight downward trend from 7.9 per cent in 1923 and 8.5 per cent in 1924 to 6.2 per cent, 5.4 per cent, and 6 per cent respectively...
General Cardenas stretched forth his right hand, empty and palm downward...