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...that have appealed to U. S. taste over several seasons, plays a secretary who pretends she is a cocotte. Against a Venetian background and the musical upholstery of incidental songs, the comedy will serve even better than Miss Bordoni's recent and not dissimilar entertainments...
...only a Court of Inquiry, and it was called at Schley's request, but in other respects it resembled the Mitchell trial: it drew a number of prominent officers as participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move...
Lieut. Col. Kerwood is reported to have hotly denied that the Sherifians make use of U. S. uniforms or insignia. He declared that they wear a special variation of the French Colonial uniform and "wear the American eagle on a special button dissimilar to that on U. S. Army uniforms...
...most valuable feature of studying abroad is the chance it offers for making comparisons between vastly dissimilar peoples. For graduate students, going to France is a broader application of William Allen White's dictum. If you live in the East, go to a Western college; if in the West, go East. Professors, who knew long before Mr. White of the advantage of change of locality in education, never weary of trying to flail inert undergraduates into seeking interesting experiences, and although they are usually unsuccessful, now and then a bold student cuts himself off from the mother-country's apron...
...have seen can fill us with joy, for we have seen that Communist experiment has totally failed, because Communism, which tends to level all men down, is opposed to life and the nature of man, who is, by instinct, individualistic. Russia now follows an economic financial policy not much dissimilar from the ones obtaining in capitalistic countries. Russia now has stock exchanges in operation and money which is quoted on these stock exchanges. Besides, the new policy has created a class of small landholders who have small sympathy for Communism and has turned the professional classes also against the Communists...