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Briefly, the Brazilians so flagrantly defied the European powers and the Latin American nations, that the merest dullard asked: "With what power or powers is Brazil secretly in cahoots? With the Germans? With the French? With Italy, since Mussolini is notoriously anti-League...
...France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18). Premier Bethlen slipped into the Parliament building by a side entrance. For two hours he held last minute conferences with the leaders of the Opposition in the lobbies -cajoled, threatened, begged. It became obvious to the merest dullard that the Government found itself indeed most severely compromised by the discovery of the plot through the activities of French detectives, and the arrest of 70 persons including the chief of police of Budapest. Finally Count Bethlen succeeded in getting the Opposition leaders to promise that they would restrain their...
...most coveted of encomiums. In their searching compilations of the biographies of great men, they find that Genius has been largely accustomed to growing up "study free." Napoleon looms out with a colossal capacity for mental vacuity, and the moral is obvious; set a lazy man to catch a dullard. Wellington was notoriously lazy. Blucher, by some mysterious prefiguration, early showed signs of his later forte by earning for himself the sobriquet of the "last-place pupil".--Waterloo was to see him starring in his old position, with Wellington showing that laziness is superior to mere lack of education, such...
...sent home. The land of the free offers learning to all. So the great seat shortage is only one aspect of a bad situation. There arise attendant evils of double sessions, night work, overcrowding, poor lights and air, underpaid instruction, inadequate equipment. Large classes slow up the work. The dullard drags upon the child of fair promise...
...work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...