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What the half element in American life does not affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence...
...fall, and I woud have done it too but for the uncertainly of the woman's vote. For Joe Forecast, despite all rumors to the contrary, is but human; and there is his weakness. But football, a game for red-blooded, virile men, there Joe Forecast is in his element. How he longs for the opening kickoff to see the Crimson-jerseyed hosts pass and repass the last white line. But I grow poetic. I have to be very careful about that...
...least intrinsic element in that hope be considered the freedom which, probably for the first time, surrounds, becomes implanted in the mind and spirit of the Class of 1930. On the seal of Harvard University there is revealed the word, "Veritas"--Truth. And no matter how impressed by his new freedom any member of the Class of 1930 may be, he must realize directly and adequately that the price of his freedom is no more, no less than what is indicated by the word so distinctly emblazoned upon the seal of his university...
...come in through the Open Door and tell us his ideas about it. . . ." Will Hays sat as tsar of moviedom like Judge Landis in baseball, yet saw people, listened. "I believe," said he, "in the personal relationship of man, the expression of personality, and above all, keeping the human element-the heart touch-in everything...
...container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment. Lavoisier later worked out the modern theory that combustion ("fire") consists in the union of oxygen with another element, usually carbon-a discovery nearly as important as Newton's detection of gravity through the fall of an apple...