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Roman Catholic prelates often aver that no Cardinal desires to be Pope. If, as the world insists, Merry del Val was an exception to this rule, it is also probable that he now says the rule was wise. For surely the after-middle-years would have been robbed of all felicity had Merry del Val labored, as Pope, to be as great as he has been Cardinal...
...records of la mairie d'Aigues-Vives (Mayor's office in small village in the Department of Ariège) aver that M. Doumergue was christened Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston. His family have apparently been Calvinists (Protestants) since the 16th Century, when the Picardian Jean Calvin caused a commotion by publishing his Institutio Christianae religionis...
...mile stratum beyond the range of airplanes. Once it gets free of the earth's atmosphere moreover, it would operate still better, as its maximum efficiency is in a vacuum. Dr. Goddard makes no Jules Verne predictions for future interplanetary communication by passenger-carrying cars, but he does definitely aver that there are no insuperable obstacles to this first modest mechanical attempt to reach other worlds than...
...tennis sovereigns are becoming solicitous over their subject's literary activities. Amateur tennis players, they aver, should not gain from the game by authorship. Ceteris verbis, tennis players will probably be forbidden the right of contributing to magazines for money. So swollen is the trade apparently that certain of the stars are supporting themselves thereby. They are commercial athletes if not professional...
...effect of the proposals if put in effect would be far-reaching. They would, as the insurgents aver, give the House better "control over itself." But they would also give a minority more power to prevent accomplishments by the majority, even if the majority were a clear majority, as the present Republican majority is not. The present rules restrict the power of the House to "control itself," but they also enable it to sort the wheat from the chaff and accomplish results...