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...have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...
...speech which most Democrats studied for platform pointers, Mr. Baruch gave Governor Ritchie his first important push toward the White House. Declared this wise old Democratic counselor: "We have in our midst the perpetual* Governor of Maryland to whom the finger of Fate seems to point as being perhaps destined to move to a neighboring District...
...consequences of this step may be far-reaching. If the films succeed in Sociology, they may push forward into other fields...
...Borah-I would, yes. . . . I think the time is past for moratoriums. . . . We have reached the time when if we are going to relieve the economic situation we shall have to cut, instead of push [debt payments] back a year or two and destroy the credit of every nation against whom it stands. . . . I think we are economically affected by the situation in Europe, and I think we shall have to be interested...
...student in answering a question asking for the definition of "Drang nach Osten," declared that it was the cry of the German barbarians to push on to Osten, while another simply explained it as being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...