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This very literacy, plus the proletarian character of the only partially assimilated immigrant population, has given Argentine politics their pronounced Socialist trend, a trend which only sternest measures by a series of strong Socialist Presidents has halted on the brink of Bolshevism...
...brink of a 2,000 foot precipice teetered, last week, the largest monolith of flawless Carrara marble ever quarried...
...dread, slow-spreading famine in Shantung and adjoining provinces (TIME, Feb. 6) had pushed 150,000 Chinese to the brink of Death, last week, put 300,000 into a condition of "agonizing starvation," and rendered 1,000,000 stomachs light if not quite empty...
...oration to start things going. This orator must choose a subject upon which the convention holds a unanimous opinion. A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption...
Frankness pushed to the brink of indiscretion characterized, last week, an address delivered in London by the Honorable Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, Mahara-jadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.** Said his Highness: "It is no use shutting our eyes to the fact that there is in India today a volume of opinion, small, perhaps, but yet not negligible, and which is growing every day not only in strength but intensely, which desires to get rid of British rule at all costs...