Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island" (Jamaica) to see the world-challenging steed, Eclipse, race the Southern horse, Sir Henry, over no mere matter of furlongs but three four-mile heats, held half an hour apart. The crowd dwarfs even a modern world series throng, being estimated at 100,000. Shrewd hindsight permits the author to mark the event as foreshadowing a struggle that was to follow it in 40 years. It is the South against the North. Betting and feeling run high. Behind young Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting and shouting with grim intensity. If Sir Henry conquers...
...decide. And, however that may be, the situation in Greece during the Macedonian invasions, the magnificence of Demosthenes' stand against the forces of petty politics, corruption and disunion among the Greek states is more than capable of standing on its feet and challenging admiration because of its force. The author goes deeply into the implications of Demosthenes' failure. In this final ruin of Greece into a diluted varnish spread over the Oriental and Roman worlds, he sees the virtual end of the one manner of life that might, if it had stayed on its feet, have been the salvation...
...author, Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, declares that much physical ill comes from false thinking--a thesis that he supports with convincing examples. He predicts that the next great task of medicine will be to combat the unsound beliefs that subtly but surely undermine health...
Ambassador without Portfolio, Will Rogers explains in his own words his widespread activities during the European trip from which he has just returned. The author, like Artemus Ward, is another of those subtle critics of society whose with gives him the precious license to say what he thinks...
...ever wholly deceiving one's enemies. And books which at this date canvas again and again the responsibility for the War, particularly the question of inter-allieddebts, may in most cases be justly suspect of propagandist aims, even though it be the misfortune, and not the intention of the author, if his propaganda deceives his friends rather than his enemies. Frederick Bausman purports to be the friend of the American people, as a loyal American himself. And yet if his book be believed by his friends the Americans, they risk even greater dangers abroad than those of which Mr. Bausman...