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British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain pulled a string, the string released a weight, the weight hit a plank, the plank moved a rod, the rod tipped a latchet, the latchet released a spring, the spring opened a door and a ball began to roll...
From my lofty pedestal of 85 years, I am looking down on you as probably a mere "kid" compared with myself. And I am going to read you a little sermon. Do not let the ever "Forward flowing tide of TIME roll back to any form of archaism such, my dear boy as you were guilty of in styling Governor Ferguson as the Governess of Texas. Please do not do it again...
...Last week, the President terminated the controversy by appointing John G. Sargent of Vermont, whom the Senate promptly confirmed without a roll-call, without a single opposing vote...
...College has become a stamping mill. Almost all men wear its stamp after graduation. Few of them roll about sufficiently, afterwards, to gain smoothness or polish or even to lose the narrow, confined shape it gives them...
...Reed immediately moved to reconsider, and Senator Walsh promptly countered with a motion to table Senator Reed's proposal. Another roll call was ordered and begun...