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...most of them are built of steel. Airplanes fly .ahead to spot seal herds from the sky. Daily weather reports radioed from Toronto and Washington tell the skipper when to keep his men off the ice. But sealing is still no sport for milksops as any sealer will attest when, huddling behind an ice pinnacle after a ducking, he strips to a cutting wind, wrings out his icy clothes and tugs them back...
Anyone registered in an elementary course, especially in the science departments, can attest to the uninteresting and often inefficient manner in which classes or laboratories are conducted. The reason lies very often, not in the nature of the subject, but in the absence of necessary qualifications in the instructor...
...only a pity that there are so many pied de terres pocking the map of Europe such as Belgium, Poland, and the Balkans, flints to the steel that sparks international discord into war. Liberty, equality, fraternity, are as crisp and dead as the documents which attest to their existence. Democracy was only a step on the road to efficient dictatorship, as the Swastika aptly shows. Scientific organization cannot admit of rugged individualism...
...means of a unique collection of slides, taking all literature as its province, Mr. Hersey creates in his students a nostalgia for Old World traditions which attest European Man's brilliant history of Desire and Dreams. And nostalgia, is after all, the stuff of inspiration. The emotional compulsion of such titles as "The London of Dickens" and "Stevenson's Scotland" is second only to that of the slide lectures themselves...
...Magdalen had prayed that she might live to see Mother Mary beatified. Now, suddenly, she felt a flow of strength, arose from her bed, flexed her arms, walked briskly about. A small child in an adjoining bed jumped out of the window at the sight. Five doctors came to attest the cure, among them two Jews who swore to it on the gold Testament...