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...must prepare to act as sufferers who will probably fail to convert any of the opposition. I know, however, that you can count on the support of some of your elders. And I know that when you find something worth your efforts, you are all capable of the utmost loyalty. John Bovey '35, Instructor in English...
...Calling the Richard Thomas board "trustees for the cartel," the Economist asked: "Can a centralized, cartel-like organization of industry, in which the interests of an individual firm are subordinated to those of the industry as a whole, be reconciled with the community's interest in the utmost speed of technical progress?" This question acquired a new urgency last week. For Britain has been importing 200,000 tons of steel a month from Belgium and Luxembourg; and last week, with Luxembourg gone and Belgium going, England (and France) began rushing tonnage orders to the U. S. for steel products...
...exert our utmost charm to all guests at a party...
...turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste. It is all very well to invoke the old formulate and say that Tchaikowski wrung sublimity from an anguished soul. But if for no other reason than this must his music be played with the utmost restraint. Music so thoroughly and unashamedly emotional in character can ill afford the lily-gilding to which conductors subject it. Must every shadow of subtlety be dragged out, and nothing at all left to the listener's imagination...
...year of persistent pressure and indoctrination the boys were packed off to the Plattsburg military camp to learn how to be heroes. The next year the pacifists, who were "worse than slackers," weren't permitted to speak; the year after that Harvard went off to fight for "the utmost of just causes...