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From that time on the general staffs of the two armies met every year. In 1912 Marshal Joffre declared that France had 1,300,000 men ready for instant mobilization. During the next two years frequent secret dispatches were exchanged between Paris and St. Petersburg which have been recently brought to light. These show beyond the shadow of a doubt that these countries were intentionally leading up to a war with Germany. With Great Britain, who had joined them through a fear of Germany's growing power, France and Russia knew that they had Germany in a net from which...
...After the War he operated Shipping Board vessels on commission. Coastwise shipping struck him as a good field. He was right. At present transatlantic shipping is unprofitable. Passenger carriers move at a dead loss. Coast trading has been earning so well that it has become crowded with ships. More frequent sailings have stimulated both passenger and freight traffic...
Hollywood seems firmly determined to break what Somerset Maugham declares to be our eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be amused". Comedies, such as "Let's Get Married", now at the Metropolitan, are steadily playing a more frequent part in the repertoires of the more able actors and actresses that filmdom boasts...
...mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...
...wind was increasing steadily, however, and the moments when they were hidden by snow grew more frequent and longer. They reached a point we know to be about 900 feet from the top. Then a flurry of wind and snow hid them from sight for some time and when we again saw them 75 feet approximately had been gained. We watched them struggle on another 25 feet and again a blast of snow made it impossible for us to know where they were. The air was filled with snow for a long time. For how many minutes I couldn...