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...vastest political document ever drawn up," consisting of 121 articles. Twenty-six secretaries working all day turned out one copy. Yet when the ceremony of signing began another cautious Englishman suddenly got cold feet, insisted on reading the whole treaty, read until midnight, then signed it and "one epoch was closed, another opened...
...President Felton was once superintendent of the Farm and Trades School on Thompson's Island. The revenues from Bumkin Island used to reach the Pockets of the President and Fellows; the annual income cannot have been much for the whole island was worth less than $1500 during its gaudiest epoch...
Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
...balance of last year's surplus. We have gradually increased our taxation, and we have dealt with the American debt liability in a manner which no one would have tolerated in the years for which I was responsible. I was the last orthodox Chancellor of the Victorian epoch. . . . I feel I am entitled to ask the House to regard me as the last of the Mohicans...
...that this work was not sociology. It is hard to agree with this view of a book which was characterized in the "Saturday Review of Literature" by Harold Laski as follows: "No one is entitled to speak of Russia who has not read this book. It marks a definite epoch in the understanding of the greatest historical event since the French Revolution." Laski affirms this in spite of his severe criticism of the Webb' treatment of individual freedom in the Soviet Union...