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...difficulty in adjusting her good intentions to her Iowa temperament caused sorrowing St. Gandhi to embark on a hunger strike seven months ago. Nilla repented and for five months slept on a bed of bricks in penance. Two months ago she erupted once more, turned up wild-eyed and dusty at the home of an astonished Hindu in Muttra only to disappear again...
...those who wish to explore the small obscurities of the past do so, but do not discourage a man from taking a large field and discovering now interpretations of it, or from striking out on some entirely original path of his own choosing. For whatever work he chooses to embark on, the student would be assigned perhaps two advisers or tutors, from one or more fields. The board of doctoral examiners would be composed differently for each candidate, with representatives from various departments, so that the whole range of his study might be covered and no part of it overtaxed...
...relieve distress and to subsidize groups. Already the government is speeding up its machinery of loans in the hope that advances to be made on commodities will send the price level up. It was a forewarning of this western revolt which caused the President to decide suddenly to embark upon the gold buying policy which for months had been advocated by Professor Warren...
...Bolshevism' of the Prussian State then existing forced many men, for the sake of keeping their concerns going, to embark on courses of action which were then illegal but are now understandable...
...loophole, in case the Empire countries should eventually desire to embark on Rooseveltian finance, Chancellor Chamberlain, who continued to keep sterling steady against the French franc and other European gold standard currencies last week, inserted in the declaration that "the United Kingdom Government has no commitments to other countries regarding the future management of sterling and retains complete freedom of action in this respect...