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Although not conceived with cynical intent, the early dismissal from school is a reflection on the sense of proportion of the general public. A not unin fluential group has determined that America shall not slip down the lax road to ruin. The methods employed however, fit ill with the announced intention. Morality in the last analysis would appear to rest on the inclinations and customs of the people and not on the pointed paternalisms of authority...
Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...
...chief argument against the committee's decision against the unseating of Brookhart was advanced by Senator Bingham and others, who said that Brookhart had been elected by the rules of Iowa governing ballots, that the Senate Committee had no right to go behind the Iowa law questing for the "intent" of the voter...
...strode toward his automobile. In the general excitement no one noticed a wild-eyed white-haired Irishwoman who sprang up beside the Premier's motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain...
Chang. Troops of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun, Chang Tso-lin, which were supposed to have helped the Wu troops attack Peking (TIME, April 12), were either "closing in on the city" (with intent unstated) ; or they were presumably passing the time by looting in the suburbs...