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...clear the way for intelligent, thoughtful negotiation. Out of the garnered wisdom of 28 years' diplomatic experience Ambassador Grew said, shortly after his arrival in Tokyo two years ago: "For statesmanship and for diplomacy there can be no more important duty than to smooth out and to align differences of opinion among nations...
...most recent attempt to align Harvard University with the progressive tendencies of college administration, the creation of the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while encouraging at first sight, proves on inspection to be but a snare and a delusion...
Though he has been a shining improvement over his predecessor of 25 years ago, the debauched Cipriano Castro, there are many things about Dictator Gomez difficult to align with Nordic ideas of civil virtue. The old General is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country. It has been charged that no project, from cattle breeding to oil leases, can exist without payment of a personal tribute to El Benemerito. All attempts to overthrow his government are instantly and brutally suppressed. Venezuela's pride, her highway system, has been built largely...
...greatest of Presidents but with such men as Mascaro, Vasco Bello, Arsenic Ortix, Cartaya and others of the same type, as his most confidential councilors and advisers, the explanation may be easily seen: of what might otherwise seem quite incompatible'. For why should a 33rd degree Mason align himself with a 44th degree assassin of such insatiable cruelty as Ortiz bristles with and always manifests...
...undergraduate decides that one altered letter in his degree is not worth all this extra work and all the dissipation of energy it involves, what changes must he make in his planned curriculum to align it with his non-classical background? He need make no other change at all. He may take eight courses in English and one in elementary science; that does not alter the fact that, without Latin or Greek, his badge of achievement, awarded after four years, must be in science and not in arts. Moreover, if he wants to try for honors in English he discovers...