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...country through which the road passes is not spectacular. Flat and brushy, lying near the unpredictable Gulf, it could easily be overlooked by a traveler, its latent wealth unsuspected. Texans say that if it lay in Europe it would be called the Desolate Plains, or something equally melodramatic, and travelers would shun it, just as the pleasant fir woods of Germany are known as the Black Forest, the abode of witches and evil spirits. But, being in Texas, it is irrigated, scraped over, dug into with an energetic, hopeful, optimistic curiosity. As a result the land produces oil, grapefruit, spinach...
...have never concealed from the nation or from the House the darker side of our dangers and burdens. But it is in adversity that the British qualities shine brightest. It is under these extraordinary tests that the character of our slowly wrought institutions reveals its latent and invincible strength. Up to the present this war has been waged between a fully armed Germany and a quarter-or half-armed British Empire. We have not done so badly...
...last year's and Dartmouth's 1944 aggregation is apparently the best in a long time. If Don McNicol's eleven lost decisively to the Green last November, it would seem that Coach Boston is in for an afternoon of watching his players absorb another licking. Should the primarily latent potentialities of the Yardlings come to light, it may be a sadly disillusioned group of Indians who stalk back to the Hills this evening...
George Carens of the Traveler: "I'm picking Dartmouth, rooting for Harvard. I saw Dartmouth lose to Yale. But the latent power in Dartmouth in likely to break loose today. No back in the Harvard backfield is as good as Krol has been and no one on the Harvard team as lively as Wolfe...
...thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever he went, from Turkestan to Mexico. His son and most of his kin had mysteriously died during the years of his exile. Only three months ago he had barely escaped assassination (TIME, June 3). Mexico City was full...