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Prosecutor Krylenko is stocky and kinetic, with large, Asiatic features, and a close-cropped bullethead. His tongue is adept at wooing a prisoner into indiscretion and then lashing him upon the raw...
Paraphrasers suggested that Sir Austen meant, "A League which used raw, un-mellowed, strong-arm methods and thus antagonized its Member States would diadem sight quicker than will the present milk-and-water League...
These sportive moments are among the things which make Cambridge bearable in summer. Hot and sultry weather may come--in fact it usually does--but as a reward one has the opportunity to view humanity in the raw on the banks of the Charles. Three years ago this week saw some of the hottest and most unpleasant weather ever known to man settled on a parched university. One lived on the river banks, along with hundreds of others; nocturnal wanderings were valuable as laboratory experiments in Biology. When the siege was over life went on as usual, with the added...
...when the Young Turks set up their capital there to be out of reach of Allied War boats. Naturally the album contained other photographs. But these showed only what King Amanullah could see about him: the New Angora, a city of four, six and eight-story buildings, still raw and unlovely, yet proving that at last an Asiatic people is making swift, dynamic progress...
...reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business of today. Toward Henry Ford, Mr. Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that Mr. Ford succeed. He controls so many sources of raw material and specializes in low-priced cars which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual fact that this progress depends in no small measure upon Ford being in the field of production." Then, with what might have...