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...initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict you. Time and again I have seen Mr. Schuster vote for the acceptance of a book which offered no promise of money, but which seemed to him a work of art deserving of the light of print; Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance may serve as instances. Mr. Schuster...
...This is a solid achievement to the credit of the international wheat agreement!" cried genial John I. McFarland, manager of the Canadian Wheat Pool. Other delegates saw no reason to contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage...
Reverent before tradition. Author Mann never meddles with the main outline of the Biblical story, but he expands its abbreviated prehistory into an appearance of the present, concentrates its bald chronicle of events into a human reality. No strict-interpretationist of the Scriptures, he does not hesitate to contradict or supplement the original account in matters of minor fact. Thus he says that Jacob's only daughter Dinah was older, not younger, than her brothers Issachar and Zebulun; suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served...
...investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible on the body. A pistol was clutched in his left hand but Stavisky appeared to have been shot both through the right side and over the right temple-a difficult job for a suicide. Bleeding was profuse, suggesting that...
...CRIMSON, informing us of the gravity of the situation and reminding us that our reputations are at stake, proceeds to laud the spirit of the questionnaire, and then as usual, to contradict itself Warning us all of the danger of publicity, the CRIMSON sensationalizes the questionnaire on its front page, so the every dirty tabloid in Boston is sure to have the story before the Friday CRIMSON has gone to press. And then in the leading editorial, we read that the resists of the questionnaire "would be of importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance...