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...played by any number of persons, though six is the ideal set. One player, the Banker, starts out with little tickets representing $5000 in bank notes...
...Paris, the German government, followed them with a very personal message for his friend's wife: "I beseech you to believe in my sorrowful sympathy in the mourning which strikes you so cruelly. I shall ever guard a precious memory of your husband who in following a common ideal gave me an opportunity of appreciating the high level of his views and the perfect loyalty of his character." It was significant of the world's opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann's seat in the Reichstag...
...terrible headaches.'. . . I never knew him to suffer from 'ghastly dyspepsia' or any other kind. I have known him to be bored when reading stuff like Professor Pitkin's. . . . What heartburns he suffered were for humanity and because of the attempts to thwart his ideal of world peace. . . . It is true that he had bad eyesight, but he could still envisage the horrors of war, the sufferings of humanity and the way to free the world of them...
...local history the 17th century, which made the feudal land law of mediaeval England into a system which could go around the world in the 19th, and the time just after the Revolution when English Institutions and English legal doctrines were made over to conform to an ideal of American society by a criterion of applicability to American conditions...
...Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions for growing cotton, should double the present output of Turkestan. Last week Mr. Davis told Moscow correspondents that $250,000,000 will be spent on this stupendous irrigation work, said that he will supervise. Pressed for details he spoke with mounting excitement...