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...collection, which took a number of years to complete, contains books, pamphlets, manuscripts, Acts of Parliament, and other material pertaining to the speculative mania which swept over England in 1711 and reached its peak...
...remembered that today included in this figure is nearly 1½ billions of working balance in the Treasury and nearly 4½ billion dollars of recoverable assets. Dwindling Deficit. "As things stand today, and in the light of a definite and continuing economic improvement, we have passed the peak of appropriations. Revenues
Professor Rosenau was named as one of three men responsible for the development of the science of preventive medicine to its present high peak. The author of numerous books and pamphlets on medical subjects, the University awarded him an honorary degree of Master of Arts...
...should be no surprise to learn that Ibsen is definitely dated. His battles have been fought to a finish on the lines he marked out and if society has not attained the peak of liberal rationality which he desired it is at least clear that the urban theatre goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment...
Ballet supremacy teetered between France and Italy until Russia raised it to its peak. Peter the Great imported Western dances. Catherine did more, and so did her mad son Paul. Thereafter a national ballet school flourished in Russia. The Classicist, Petipa, trained all his dancers until they had superlative technique. Isadora Duncan had an influence because of her free approach to music, her dominating personality. Michael Fokine appeared on the Russian scene with his own liberated ideas, introducing the ballets with which Sergei Diaghilev paved his way throughout the Western world...