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These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...
...would appear from the first primary held since the defeat of President Roosevelt's Reorganization Bill that the dike is beginning to cave...
...drops James Madison Clevenger, the news magnate and former passionate admirer of Sara in her acting days. In spite of his cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either side. In a great swirl of mixed emotions, including revived love for Sara and conviction that the people are sick of neutrality, he lets down the dike, first playing up the story of the French sinking...
...rawboned Mr. Dykstra (first syllable as in dike), who stands 6 ft. 3¾ in. and weighs just 200 lb., was born 54 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. He graduated from the University of Iowa, studied two-and-a-half years at the University of Chicago but did not take a Ph.D. After teaching political science at Ohio State and the University of Kansas, he became executive secretary of the Cleveland Civic League in 1918. That work appealed to him so much that he spent four years with similar organizations...
...flood-wave of anti-intellectualism which has been inundating American university life during recent years will find an adamantine dike in its way if President Conant's experiment in study- as-a-hobby is carried through to its logical conclusion at Harvard within the next few years...