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Thus with painful candor did Mr. Farrell footnote Mr. Schwab's eloquence and the footnotes became the greater news. Even the painful candor, however, could not entirely blot out the memory of the Schwab eloquence: "There are many signs of stirring in our economic life. . . . We want to keep pulling for the shore. . . . We can be cheered by the knowledge that 'the tide is coming.' " In darker years han 1931 Mr. Schwab had said the same things and he had been right. But to make his prophecies come true again what seemed most to be needed...
...cancelling the meaningless distinction between its A.B. and S.B. degrees by making the arts degree dependent on the field of concentration rather than on knowledge of the ancient languages. Such a change need not imply a denial by the University of the value of studying the classics. It would blot out the stigma of official favoritism which, by arousing an instinctive antagonism, has probably hindered rather than promoted a true appreciation of ancient literature and culture...
...thought he had found one. He thought he had caught Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian Minister in Washington, saying that the Haitian fort for capturing which he (Butler) won the Congressional Medal of Honor, was a fictitious fort. Wrathfully General Butler appealed to the Navy Department to have this ugly blot wiped from his record...
Massachusetts has not fared well in its reputation for faithful judicial procedure. The Sacco-Vanzetti case still stands as a blot in the 'scutcheon. Now it has been demonstrated that the legal machinery of Massachusetts can and does insure a "fair and speedy trial", the constitutional right of every citizen...
Long has the desert of Ruba-el-Khali ("Abode of Loneliness"), wild, waterless, utterly unknown, remained "the white blot on the map." The southern interior of Arabia, centre of population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week...