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...account of science's various unsolved problems is skillfully and intelligently presented; but of even greater interest are Professor Haldane's brief studies in politics, religion, Marxism and a philosophy of life. These bespeak a wisdom, sanity and deep humanitarianism form which his progressivism logically proceeds. And the latter without the former is useless...
...Neutrality. Franklin Roosevelt argued for action, short of war (see p. 11), Idaho's Borah for Isolation (see p. 12), Elder Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson for traditional neutrality. These and many another who joined issue were professional exponents of known views. None owned a fresh voice to bespeak the people's horror of war. But at 10:45 o'clock (E.D.S.T.) one night last week that voice was heard, the voice of the one U. S. citizen who could command a radio audience comparable to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Supreme Court before 1941. Therefore the job that Frank Murphy was left when he succeeded Mr. Cummings was substantially a cop's job, and he took to it with all the fervor of an Irish moralist, all the energy that his red hair, purposeful jaw and 46 years bespeak...
...with 315 of his most representative Poems now Collected, readers will realize that Cummings' technical unconventionalities have been essential from the start. Only with such assistance could he have made words bespeak his all but ineffable theme: the all-importance-for good men and true poets-of being Nobody...
...Garter on Mr. Baldwin, to create Mrs. Lucy Baldwin a Dame 'Grand Cross of the British Empire. The Earl and his Countess thus reaped the reward of their joint services to the country, could retire among their pigs in Worcestershire with the calm eye, the warm glow that bespeak the performance of hard work well-recompensed...