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...economic life of this nation. . . . We realize that there are certain industries which cannot now successfully compete with foreign producers because of lower foreign wages and a lower cost of living abroad, and we pledge the next Republican Congress to an examination and where necessary a revision [upward], of these schedules...
...each occasion clear. Moral earnestness is required, yet the choice is between obvious right and wrong. Such a choice would be easy. In the maze of life, however, the conditions are much more insidious. The alternatives are by no means always a rugged but righteous road that winds upward, and a pleasant way leading surely to ultimate perdition. Often the paths do not seem very different, or to diverge much; and a clear vision is required to see whiter they tend Nor does a choice settle the destination, for there are by ways to return to the true road, arduous...
...Club, that tells you the book you have to read every month, to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month." Thus spake Lorelei, in admiration for what she knew to be a Step Upward, and a long, free, women's stride toward Higher Things. Her simple admiration would be even greater had she known that the movement, toward selectivity in contemporary literature had only just begun. In 1927 there was no Crime Club...
...satisfied, took the machine back to his laboratory for further study. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, army aviator and flying instructor, his stern mistress is aerodynamics. Quietly, persistently he has worked to prove his theory that a bicycle, like a bird, can gain forward momentum by upward strokes of wings...
...toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however survivors were rushing frantically about screaming "War Gas!" fleeing perhaps away from and perhaps toward the Invisible Enemy...