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...Hurrah!" roared the students. "Rifle and Book! Rifle and Book! Hurrah for our Duce. Rifle and Book!" Said one of the Dictator's secretaries, "His Excellency personally devised the watchword 'Rifle and Book!' It symbolizes the twofold duty of Fascist students and is now the recognized basis of university training in Italy...
...ideal of such a theatre would not be vocational, although the training of actors and actresses might result. Its aim would be twofold: to teach the art of the theatre and to give men personal experiences of the greatest dramatic literature. It is too often forgotten that the theatre is in itself an art similar to that of painting or music and it is also forgotten that real education is a process of inner experience. The theatre is the natural field of dramatic experience...
Chief sponsor for this Constitutional amendment is Nebraska's grizzled old Senator George William Norris. His purpose (with which no disinterested person has ever disagreed) is twofold: 1) to eliminate the legislative influence of Senators & Representatives whose constituencies have already repudiated them; 2) to close the 13-month gap between an election in which voters express their sovereign will and the first meeting of a new Congress in which that will is to be executed...
What Stalin did last week was twofold: 1) He announced the program for 1932, fourth year of the first Piatiletka (FiveYear Plan). By the end of this year the first Five-Year Plan will have been completed in four years. 2) He outlined the second Five-Year Plan, to begin January 1933. That Stalin could assume the first Plan completed nobody denied, for if Dictator Stalin says the first Five-Year Plan is a success it must be, for Russians, a success...
...recent scholarship foundation provided by the French government is an event of twofold significance. In laying open to men completing their doctorates a path to the French national archives and libraries, France is making available, as to a privileged guest, a study of the highest attainments of European civilization. It is a measure comparable to the Rhodes Scholarships, in that it provides for men with the inclination and capability, but without the funds, an opportunity of becoming citizens of the whole cultural world, not merely graduates of one college. Provincialism is one of the besetting sins of America, despite...