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...half submerged tree). There was a booming impact and crash. It seemed to the onlookers that the boat must be shattered to pieces. But there it was, still intact, and the huge tree toppling into the water. A spontaneous cheer went up. . . ." "By the end of 1830, the age-old drowned forests had vanished from the Mississippi...
Even now, the Chapel is fulfilling its age-old use as the College catch-all, for Professor Packard holds his public speaking classes here...
...That age-old right of a sovereign nation, for which the U.S. fought in 1812 and again in 1917, was virtually surrendered by the passage of the Neutrality Act in 1935-surrendered in an excess of idealism just as sweeping as that with which'Americans surrendered the right to drink when they passed the 18th Amendment. If now the Freedom of the Seas is reasserted it will be an event as striking as Repeal-the end of America's second Noble Experiment in one generation. Last week the effort to end it was already afoot: ^ Secretary Knox denounced...
...anniversary of the first great labor encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
...East stirred restlessly, like a monster aroused from an age-old sleep, as new conquerors threatened the age-old dominion of Britain. To an appeal from the London Times to end his civil-disobedience campaign in view of Britain's growing peril, Mohandas K. Gandhi replied curtly that the campaign "must continue at all costs." In Iran tension increased with the fear that Russia was preparing to drive toward the Persian Gulf. In Iraq Nazi plotters had already unsettled Britain's hold (see p. 37), and Nazi Schemester Franz von Papen appeared to have cowed Turkey into some...