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...China will tend to increase it. A people who until eighty years ago regarded themselves, not without justification, as the center of the civilized world, are not likely to forget their past. Remembering it, they are not likely to acquiesce in the domination of invaders who, in order to maintain their power, must seek to reverse the current of China's modern intellectual development. Friction will result, for a long time to come...
...skis to glide exceptionally fast and that they can learn much better on slow skis. This is wrong, as one has much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent backsliding and saving considerable energy...
...Italians there was in the Spanish situation an enormous opportunity to obtain revenge for the British attitude on their Ethiopian conquest. No longer will it be possible for the Crown to maintain Gibraltar in the security they have enjoyed in years past...
Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
With offices in London, Paris and Brussels, Dr. Tenenbaum's aids maintain eternal vigilance over trade relations with Germany to spot violations of the boycott. If the boycott council ferrets out evidence of such a violation, the firm involved is asked for an explanation. If none is forthcoming, the council pickets its offices, publishes its name and offense, does its best to prevent customers from trading there until the firm agrees to arbitrate...