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...profits that Doheny and Sinclair hoped for from their oil leases, which they never would have gotten under Democratic rule; a difference of $30,000,000 in the condition of the American farmer and the value of his holdings, a difference of $750,000,000 in the proposed ship subsidy; a difference of not less than $2,000,000,000 in excessive prices to consumers imposed by a Republican tariff; and a difference between wholesale and widespread corruption and administrative honesty...
...propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment, was the course. Then the little light of a freight train that labored along far below pointed out the way, which lay directly along the route of the Texas Pacific R. R. After midnight, the ship -that haughty ship that almost stubbed its toe on a mountain peak-reached San Diego and the Pacific...
...against the ship subsidy; the President supported...
Hogarth, having solved the problem of the world's misery, decided that he was justified in leaving prison to set things right. Blasting the great bell of Colmoor with lightning from heaven, he escaped astride of its clapper when it was sent for repairs. The ship bearing the bell and Hogarth was wrecked, and he was cast up on the Cornish coast...
...many complex reasons the study of the classics has sunk, with all the rapidity of a torpedoed ship, to a pitiable position in the interests of students in the modern colleges and secondary schools. Aroused by this catastrophe, the American Classical League has rushed assistance in the form of an imposing array of statistics by which, among other things, they show, as usual, that classical scholars have a higher average in all other subjects than do students who have not dipped into the rewarding, if difficult literatures of Rome and Athens. The inference seems to be that the classics...