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...Hell & high water they had endured for seven years and seven months. The work had not stopped night or day except on Christmas, Labor Day, the Fourth of July. Seventy-two of them had been killed. Their monument was in concrete, in the biggest thing men had ever made on earth. Grand Coulee Dam towered 550 feet from the ancient bed of the Columbia River, spanned three-quarters of a mile from bank to bank; behind it the waters had piled up in the beginnings of a lake that one day will stretch 151 miles to the Canadian border...
...like the musical operas. ... I don't usually go too much for the heavy stuff unless this Lehmann is singing it. Then it's all right. . . . It's going to be pretty lonesome . . . won't be nobody to talk to. Traffic will be a hell of a lot lighter, though...
...Mind, for anything perception can compass, goes in our spatial world more ghostly than a ghost. . . . What then does it amount to? All that counts in life. Desire, zest, truth, love, knowledge, 'values' and seeking metaphor to eke out expression, hell's depth and heaven's utmost height...
...tide has turned. Perhaps this Younger Crowd has noticed that a generation of economic theorists has not exactly solved the ills of the world and decided to adopt a mass what-the-hell-let's-read-a-novel-and-forget-it attitude. But that's a pessimistic view. Let's think of it as a wave of culture sweeping into the Yard and driving the arid Social Sciences before it. It may well be that a new and inspired race of authors, playwrights, and poets has entered the College and that twenty-nine years from now 117 J. P. Marquands...
...share. Macleod is dead now, and time softened the animosity between Collip and Banting. Said Dr. Collip last week: ''I have lost a close personal friend." Few years ago Banting was invited by a U. S. university to deliver a two-hour discourse on diabetes. "Hell," he observed, "for all I know about diabetes 15 minutes would be enough." He had known even less than that about it the October night in 1920 when he sat down to brush up for a lecture to students next day. He knew, of course, that a gland called the pancreas...