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Through the first three-quarters of the game the Crimson had played the Blue to a standstill in a fast and free-kicking affair. But in the final the Elis exerted their vaunted passing superiority to the utmost and inevitably scored the winning goal over a badly-tired Crimson eleven...
...Italy is making roads through Ethiopia with the avowed intention of colonizing the country. The Danakils are doing their utmost to stop the process by killing the road makers and their guards. The League of Nations is being strongly urged by Mr. Eden to assist the Danakils in killing the Italians with the object of stopping the road making and forcing Italy to retire discomfited, leaving the primitive tribesmen triumphant over European civilization...
...resident of California as well as New York. . . . Perhaps I am honored by special attention in the taxation program of the Federal Government on account of my political attitude, but I do not think so. I believe the Government should be given due credit for robbing everybody with the utmost impartiality. . . . The methods of the tax collector are largely those of the gangster and gunman. You cannot argue with the tax collector any more than with any other racketeer. The Treasury Department holds a gun to your head and you either come across or get taken for a ride...
...later has to face squarely. One thinks of a tutor as a person who requires work at more or less regular intervals, but the student generally forgets that the tutorial session involves rather more than the mere giving and receiving of factual knowledge. Two minds must cooperate to the utmost if there is to be a real benefit to the student...
...word which today carries a sinister significance. Neither James O'Connor Jr., nor any of the many friends and champions and advocates of Huey P. Long's policies were ever regarded by him as "henchmen." He looked upon them as devoted friends who were doing their utmost to aid him in his struggle to prevent the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a relatively few and for its redistribution among the masses of his countrymen who he thought had earned that wealth...