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Theses will be judged on knowledge of the subject, judgment shown, organization of material and style. A further announcement is that it is important to confine the papers strictly to approved topics and have the whole topic covered...
...seems to us that he might very well say to himself now: Fate plus errors of judgment have deprived me of legislative power ... by all the precedents I shall not succeed myself . . . certainly I face a strong opposition even to my own renomination. But I am still President of the United States and for the two years that are left, I propose to be President in the full sense of the word. ... I cannot lead Congress. ... I shall lead the nation as my real convictions dictate. ... If I am to be denied a second term, I cannot be denied...
...would be a striking, dramatic feat to accomplish a flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...
...imposing as the doughty Essex, who deeply resents his Sovereign's curtailment of his expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which he is forced to wade through-resembling the weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers...
...Manhattan. A Dutchman struggling against storm and wind to round the Cape of Good Hope once swore that he would make it if he had to keep sailing until the Day of Judgment. The Devil overheard him, condemned him to just such a fate unless he could find a woman who would love him faithfully. There after every seventh year the Dutchman was permitted to go ashore to hunt a liberator. But the rest of the time he wearily sailed the seas until all the Norseland came to know of the white-faced wanderer and his phantom ship with...