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The visiting students' most usual reply to questions asked them about their impression, of Harvard was "Ach! Marvelous!" When they came upon the line of cars parked before the New Lecture Hall, one asked, waving an astounded hand at the automobiles: "You have so many professors?" In Cologne no students...
"The impression I received, declared, "was one of great power and wealth."
Industry. Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a...
Mr. Newton is master of a conversational mode of address that would have delighted his learned and loquacious hero, Dr. Samuel Johnson. His discourse upon the typographical history of the Bible is no more pedantic than his bubbling monolog on Gilbert and Sullivan (in which it occurs to him that...
His chief desire, poor man, is to make a good impression. Poorly paid, he hints at his rich friends; insignificant, he talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the...