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...only looked at it but held it in my hand and examined it carefully. Since then I have neither lost my life, nor my mind, nor my appetite. On the contrary, I am quite O.K., and my luck has steadily improved. I don't know how to explain that, except maybe the evil influence was off duty on that particular evening. W. E. WOODWARD...
...Communist," declared Kanju Kato, who was nearly barred from the U. S. on the assumption that he was. "I am a militant unionist. I should per-haps explain that a left winger like myself in Japan is actually much further to the right than a left winger in America. I adhere to the left wing group of workers' unions in Japan who are striving to overthrow Capitalism by means of the class struggle. Organized workers in Japan number 380,000 out of a total working class population of 5,770,000. Naturally the proletariat of Japan is opposed...
Hobart Upjohn, taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...
...seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial duty to enforce the Hungarian law against duelling. Gömbös asked the advice of the venerable papa of Hungarian politics. Regent Admiral Nicholas de Horthy. Thereupon he accepted the challenge but had his seconds explain to Eckhardt's seconds that he, Gömbös, had never said what Bethlen claimed he had said. This satisfactorily stopped that duel but it set off two others...
...fraction of man's activity carried on in the light of actual conditions, most of his behavior has been dictated by irrational impulses to which Pareto gave the name "residues." In many instances complexes of feeling, instincts, "residues" persist from one age to another, while the rationalizations that explain them change. Together with a theory of "the circulation of the elite"-the elite consisting of a small number of strong, determined men rising above the masses-and a theory of oscillating social cycles, Pareto introduced drama, action and will into his explanation of social change...