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...climax of the book is the scene of the crossing of the Adda, when the French troops, made heroic by two months of victory, audaciously rushed a bridge under direct fire. Thereafter Napoleon's progress had about as much dramatic conflict as the passage of a knife through butter. During the earlier battles in the vicinity of Montelegino he had perfected his tactics, staking everything on a swift and varied attack, compensating for the numerical weakness of his troops by rapid concentrations and fast marches, counting heavily on the timidity of enemy generals for the success of his plans...
Despite all his violence and crafty disregard of the desires of others, "Old Jules" had a single-mindedness and tenacity quietly heroic in character. He wanted to make the barren land produce, and his struggles with nature and with his enemies were all directed to that end. He was mean, shrewd, impulsive, attractive only in his devotion to his land and the orchards he eventually established. In a life that had been stripped to the bone his qualities were essential, or the homestead and his ambitions would have been lost to the cattlemen, the landgrabbers, or the sands that swept...
...enemy-toward all the filthy, abominable remnants of the old world, its wolfish laws and fetid life. . . . Irreconcilable, inflexible, untamable hate should be nourished by every worker, by every collective farm worker, by every soldier and office employe, by every teacher and artist, because this hate is a great, heroic, sacred hate which belongs to the proletariat...
...windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers," declared Professor Frank Debenham of Cambridge, president of the geography section, South Polar traveler, founder of the Polar Research Institute dedicated last year to the late heroic Robert Falcon Scott (TIME...
...rich today, nor are they precisely penniless. Their "personal basket," Vaness Co., is still supposed to yield them $250,000 annually. (Alleghany is their "public basket.") During the past few years they have staved off disaster through a series of heroic financial efforts, most important of which were voluntary adjustments in publicly-owned issues of Van Sweringen Corp. and Alleghany that were about to default. The Morgan loan was obtained five years ago largely to pay off nearly $20,000,000 owing to the brokerage firm of Paine, Webber & Co. and to purchase Government securities to bolster the shrinking collateral...