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...automatic civilization is not all gain. Physically, mentally as well as aesthetically we shall be a better and happier people when our sports, our music and our drama engage once more the attention of the multitudes as actual participants in the fields now given over to professionals. Rochester Times Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/2/1922 | See Source »

...most objectionable features of city life would not exist today. Population congestion, housing congestion, business congestion, manufacturing congestion, amusement congestion, and the great bogey of our transit problem--the rush hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal

Author: By Daniel L. Turner, CONSULTING ENGINEER TO NEW YORK TRANSIT COMMISSION | Title: CITY TRANSIT FACILITIES SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON TRAFFIC IMMEDIATELY IN SIGHT | 5/6/1922 | See Source »

...forget that the soldiers of the United States, of Great Britain and of Canada were comrades in arms in the Armageddon of the ages. If they could die together, surely we can live together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Canadian Viewpoint | 2/17/1921 | See Source »

...flare from the bridge of the "Bharralong," south-bound in the Channel chop, is fulfilled in "White Shadows of the South Seas." The fascination of strange peoples and new scenes lies at some time on every one, and among all the harvesters of exotic flowers who have written of happier climes and simpler manners, till there has been of late years no end of making books about the South Seas, Frederic O'Brien takes high place...

Author: By D. W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF - REVIEWS - JOTS AND TITLES | 1/21/1921 | See Source »

Moreover, such a mandate would be of the greatest material benefit to the inhabitants of Mexico. War may be an amusing national industry but it is rarely a profitable or healthy one. Under the protection of this country Mexicans should lead a happier existence than they have these many decades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FALL RESOLUTION | 6/2/1920 | See Source »

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