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...Scope. "It is insisted here [by the railways], that the power to regulate 'interstate commerce is limited to the fixing of reasonable rates and the prevention of those which are discriminatory, and that when these objects are attained the power of regulation is exhausted. This is too narrow a view of the commerce clause. To regulate in the sense intended is to foster, protect and control the commerce with appropriate regard to the welfare of those who are immediately concerned, as well as the public at large, and to promote its growth and insure its safety...
...executive officers upon whom Congress conferred the power of disposal of enemy property acted within the scope of their powers, their acts are not subject to judicial nullification or review...
England's splendid isolation is gone. The sea and the British fleet cannot prevent hostile attacks from the air. To meet this situation, so alarming to a country which has not suffered an invasion for nearly 900 years, the Air Ministry has formulated defensive plans far exceeding in scope anything attempted during the War. Huge airdromes, numbers of air squadrons will line the entire coast. London will be protected by a complete loop of such defenses, and the industrial districts will be similarly protected. These plans call for 52 well equipped squadrons within four years. If a Labor Ministry...
...from a great height, but tolerantly. His vision is embracing, a little supercilious, but not antagonistic. At times, permitting himself a specialization of curiosity, he draws his trusty telescope and applies its concentrated vision to a limited section of the horizon. An Arnold Bennett may contrive to narrow the scope of his mundane investigation to the intensive inspection of one unsavory Soho basement. Joseph Conrad, his seaman's vision scorning the intervention of the spyglass, embraces the entire Mediterranean in a searching survey. Frank Swinnerton, perched on a suburban rooftop, observes with an amiable sympathy the beginnings of young Felix...
...both possible and desirable, as we assume it to be, that every collegian should be instructed in the essentials of history, science, art and philosophy, then there must be a deliberate stiffening of requirements, and at least an attempt at a selection and synthesis which will condense within the scope of these requirements a survey of the field of knowledge. The student who had accomplished such a survey would no longer be a stranger in great regions of the world of matter and spirit, as so many half-educated people are to-day; nor would be necessarily have missed...