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When one studies . . . LAWSONOMY . . . all problems theoretically concocted in connection with Physics will fade away. . . . "All salads should contain a sprinkling of fresh cut grass. ... To imbibe alcoholic beverages. -. aids and abets the disorgs. ... The head should be ducked into a tub of cold water at least twice a day. . . . When man gets out of the economic rut . he will devote much time to the study of universal laws, and to do this successfully he will have TO GET OFF The Earth...
...Professor Laski is as much political tactician as prophet. He believes that with the war's end popular readiness for extreme measures and experiment will fade. But where conservatives see this as a return, at least in part, to the traditional freedoms of enterprise, with a release of creative impulses that state control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval...
...last evening of the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration [in] 1936 . . . Dr. Koussevitzky played his special arrangement of 'Fair Harvard.' ... I had come all the way from Japan to attend, and the inspiration . . . can never fade. . . . The last verse, with the Symphony Orchestra and the Tercentenary Chorus . . . rang out like an exultant march, symbolizing the irresistible and inevitable triumph of American youth crashing through all obstacles to victory...
...once their holdings became individual they fell prey to swindlers and land-grabbers; their cultural and social solidarity fell apart. (This, McWilliams believes, was the intention of the Dawes Act.) Their language was suppressed in schools ("truly nightmarish institutions"), their religious ceremonies discouraged, their arts and crafts allowed to fade away. By 1923 they had declined in numbers "from the pre-Columbian estimate of 850,000 to around...
...future, as hostilities fade, we will have more to do with Eden than any other man in Britain." Owen continued. "As the British Cordell Hull he is chiefly concerned with what the Allies will do after the war rather than what they do now, since most of their present action is military rather than political...