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...Vermeer der Delft has in some part, been responsible for recent arguments about his works. A popular young painter, it was his misfortune to have lived in Delft in a studio near the site of a powder magazine. This, one disastrous day in 1675, exploded, removing all trace of Jan Vermeer, together with the majority of his works. In the excitement of losing so much good gunpowder, it was possible for people to forget the loss of an artist. The few of his paintings, about 40, which were not destroyed, remained obscure until 1871 when they came to the attention...
Around the Caribbean and down the whole continent south of it lies an empire which the U. S. would never want to conquer by shrapnel, but which it never will conquer by checkbooks and sales talk so long as there is any trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists?British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret...
...William, Emerson Ritter, University of California zoologist and president of Science Service, declared: "When the idea of emergence is applied to racial as well as to individual development, there is left no trace of doubt about the adequacy of the creative power of the natural order to produce man, not only with all his physical, but with all his spiritual attributes...
...Observers have spoken of China as the merry-go-round of the world. In this strange land presidents, emperors, and governments fall one day, and rise no more; kings are imprisoned, railways are commandered, and treasuries disappear where no auditor can trace them...
Although there has been no trace of the Indians found anywhere else, and there are no indications of their later habitation, a comparison between the houses built by them and those of the Pueblos living in the northern part of the state at the present time shows a close similarity...