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Villages do not follow towns to Communism. Towns must drag villages to Communism...
...fundamental ones of them known in the universe. By definition man has taken as standards the atomic weight of oxygen, the length of a meter, the weight of a cubic centimeter of water, and four other items. From observation he has figured very closely the velocity of light, the drag of gravity, absolute zero (459.4 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit) and six others. By deduction there are seven derived constants, like the mass of the hydrogen atom, or of the electron. Then there are six experimental constants, and four conventional...
...uniformly good: the temptation to overdo almost never prevails. Frank Wilson as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess are perhaps outstanding, and the whole cast has sufficient vigor to carry the audience through even the slow first-night scene changing. But that technical matter was a very minor drag on the otherwise complete appeal of the play...
...last quarter of a football game invariably seems to drag on forever. Time outs are frequent, and strained nerves magnify the precious seconds as they slip by. During the final dozen plays or so, every one of the thousands of spectators who pack the giant stadia of the country every autumn Saturday is thinking almost constantly of the amount of time left before the last whistle. And it seems reasonable to suppose that every one of them is entitled to know kow many minutes there are remaining...
John Tinney McCutcheon, cartoonist for the patrioteering Chicago Tribune, drew a cartoon in which Uncle Sam, irate, directed the Senate investigation to haul a Big Navy Propagandist from under neath a table, where crouched another figure labelled Peace Propagandist. The caption said: "Drag...