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...decide upon the method by which possible German default under the Experts' Plan could be adjudicated and to settle the measures which were to be taken if this should happen...
...shot his shafts blithely over the whole universe. There is, of course, not much more than a suggestion of the famed original Candide. In fact, the foreword has Candide objecting strenuously to his reincarnation as the son of a pork-packer, Cunegonde worrying about what's going to happen, and Pangloss not quite happy at being made a bootlegger. But this blithe young gravedigger has exhumed their altered corpses with such obvious relish that one has not the heart to quibble with what...
...commonly thought that marriage of first cousins is bad for the health of their descendants. On the other hand, students of Eugenics are convinced from the study of such cases that these marriages are not necessarily bad, except when they tend to intensify certain bad traits that may happen to be dominant in both of the persons intermarrying. Dr. Douglas P. Murphy, of Rutherforton, N. C, now describes a case of a family whose earliest known member from Germany settled in Pennsylvania in 1731. His descendants have remained to a great extent in the same locality and have remarried...
...matter what happens to me, the cause of progress, of democracy, is going to triumph. But nothing is going to happen to me. I am a tough citizen, as our Republican and Democratic opponents will find me. If you stand fast in this convention, my friends, they can't beat us from now to Doomsday...
...ling-a-ling for you but not for me.' And by the incarnation (if they do not register a blank) that God so loved the world that He-sent someone else. And by the Church that we mean only that particular branch or sect to which we happen to belong. And I think you will agree that their religious teachers have given them a picture of heaven and hell out of Milton and Dante and the Apocalypse, rather than from Christ Himself...