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...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...
...everyone knows, Signor Mussolini's most robust hate obsession is inspired by a skulking fear that the blond Pan-German tide may some day engulf Italy as the Teutons engulfed Rome, by pouring down through the Brenner Pass. This lowest of the Trans-Alpine highways (4,495 ft.) is now held at its chief strategic points by Italy and constitutes one of her most passionately cherished spoils...
...remote and unthreatening hazard. What is of great and immediate importance is University Hall's record of grades. Tutorial work is therefore naturally the first to suffer when a student finds himself pressed for time, and that is always. The drowning sailor thinks of the wave which threatens to engulf him at the moment, not of one which may do so two, three, or four hours hence...
...brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague...
...marks the end of the policy of raising loans to meet normal charges- a policy which threatens to engulf France in financial quicksands. Once the deficits due to previous budgets have been regulated by a loan of liquidation, any appeal to the national thrift must have but one object-consolidation of the floating debt and completion of the restoration of the devastated region...