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...American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...
...your rose-colored glasses so they won't look so bad," bawled butchers in Pittsburgh's 70,000-seat stadium last week as a scant 27,000 football fans trickled in to watch Pitt play Fordham...
...part of Alaska sealing was a profitable industry. By 1910, through leasing sealing rights on the islands, the U.S. had made $9,473,996, nearly one and a half times the price of all Alaska. And by 1911 the seal herds had shrunk from 2,000,000 to a scant 125,000. Then an International Convention was signed. Pelagic sealing- hunting seals in the water-was ended. The U.S. supervised seal hunting on the Pribilofs, turned over 15% of the proceeds to Japan, 15% of the furs to Canada. Since then the seals have multiplied...
Harvard's multifarious political pressure groups make so much noise that it's difficult to realize that their total membership numbers a scant ten per cent of the undergraduate body. This very vocal group has ample opportunity to air its views on current affairs, and also to hear speakers and to discuss its own stands. But the other 90 percent are forced to remain in the outer darkness, ignorant even of the blessings they are denied...
...Small nations in the path of great powers are generally treated with scant consideration. So far our rights have been in the main respected, and I think it is only fair in this connection to acknowledge that the belligerent nearest us-Great Britain-despite the temptations and urgings of certain propagandists, has not succumbed to them and has not behaved unworthily...