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...always been the especial good fortune of Dr. Simmons to possess a crystal-clear style. This book really imparts to the reader a feeling of the excitement with which Pushkin's life was led. It was a life spent in the midst of the "madding crowd's ignoble strife", for Pushkin early became involved by association with revolutionaries, and his personal life--his love affairs--was multifarious and absorbing...
...rather than keep us out." Opponents of the bill have in mind the narrow range of discretion which the President is allowed and the possible repercussions which might result from a vigorous application of the proposed laws. As soon as the President declares a state of war or civil strife to exist a number of very definite commercial and financial drawbridges are raised: an automatic embargo on exports of arms, ammunition and "implements of war"; curtailment of all loans to belligerents; prohibition of any Americans to travel on the vessels or aircraft of warring nations; and perhaps most important...
...contrary, I am convinced that the leaders of those nations, knowing what a perhaps fatal blow another extensive war would be to the fabric of European civilization, will find some common-sense method of adjusting all controversies. Of course all the world would be glad to see the civil strife in Spain wholly localized...
Wednesday will be European Day with the following topics and speakers: At 10:30 Donald C. McKay, Instructor is History at Harvard, speaks on the subject "Struggle for Influence in the Mediterranean: England, France, Italy and Spain." "Social Strife in Spain" will follow at 11:30, the lecturer being Dr. Frank Edward Manuel, recently returned from Spain, where he made a study of labor adn other social problems...
...scandal involving the extention division of the University. A year later a fight in the athletic department split alumni and others into two embattled factions. His opponents charge that through Frank's neglect and vacillation the sparks struck by incipient friction have too often blazed into long and bitter strife...