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Offense Develops Shift...
...present book paints in the human background of royalty behind this shift in high politics. Moreover here is sketched quietly and surely the story of Gregory Novihh, the "man of god" who was nicknamed Rasputin ("The Debauchee") and who perhaps "caused" as much as anyone the fall of the Romanovs. His power over the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that their only son, Alexis, was a hemophile, bled profusely at the navel on the slightest provocation. Doctors were powerless to stop the bleeding; but Rasputin contrived to do so, by what means will per haps never...
...present trend means that our future population will be produced from the lower social and economic groups. The question much discussed by eugenic experts and by economists at present is whether this shift in racial stock will make any difference in the quality of the people of the next generation. It revives the old issue of the comparative influence of environment and heredity...
...rise of the Labor movement in England, in contrast to its absence in America, is due to the reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth...
...next play. The penalty could not be refused in these days and if Yale had been offside and a touchdown had been scored the penalty would be administered but the touchdown would not count. On the next play with Yale onside the wedge would shift to the sideline and would force the brunt of the attack on only half of the Yale team, thereby increasing the scoring of Harvard...