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Next day a trainload of anti-Semite Rumanian students, en route from Kishinev to Jassy, decided to express their contempt for Jews at Calarasi. When the train drew to a halt they seized the Jewish engineer and bound him to his engine. Dashing through the town, they laid hands on whatever Jews and Jewesses they chanced to meet, dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge...
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison entered the lists against further skyscrapers. Health officers, mayors' advisers and Henry Ford all cried halt, for obvious practical reasons. And there was a more vociferous though less effective chorus of sociologists, artists and philosophers crying out upon the "Babylonish jumble" of modern city-building. Of this faction, the logical leader was silent. Being a church-builder he was not one to whom newsgatherers would soon run for comments on a dispute in commercial architecture. Yet it was he who years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square...
Premier Mussolini looks with a jealous eye at certain portions of the Turkish coast, and is likely to pass from longing to action, if the British Lion has been persuaded into noninterference. An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool...
...long as these men confine themselves to the training of athletic teams. When, however, coaches, athletic committees, humorists, or reporters seek to interpret the relations of two great universities in the light of their own particular jobs, it is time that the enlightened opinion of both institutions puts a halt to their actions...
...this present day the life of peoples and of individuals moves too fast. We must arrest it briefly on occasions such as today, just long enough to review the work accomplished in one year. So the soldier pauses for a momentary halt upon his march...