Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarkable work on international politics. The Great War produced, of course, an enormous literature. During the past years several hundred books have been published dealing with the economic, moral, political and cultural consequences of the war and searching out the way on which humanity is moving toward an unknown fate. The subject of Mr. Bakeless' book is not at all new; but his conception and methods are excellent and distinguish this book from many other recently published works on such topics...
...interested in eggs, and egg-eating contests, and I who reveled in the colors of Easter eggs must regret the black and white slides which Professor Edgell will show in Fogg this morning. The Florentine paintings which will be shown at 11 o'clock this morning deserve a better fate...
...Margaine project for a national oil monopoly in France, recently approved by the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, has aroused a storm of protest from American oil interests. Concerned over the uncertain fate of their receiving and the distributing stations in which twenty million dollars have been invested, the Americans have characteristically appealed to the United States government...
...clock this morning between two romanticists of almost equal appeal. Professor Murdock is talking in English 33 on Edgar Allen Poe in Harvard 2, while Wordsworth will be Professor Lowes' subject in subject in English 28 at the same time in Sever 11. Poe has had a strange fate since the war, his letters and his table talk and his random jottings have received immoderate attention. It will not be long before he will be recognized more widely as being one of our great romantics. And besides. Poe was once expelled from college. Professor Murdock will probably continue his discussion...
...attitude of the Kaiser on the eve of the war is brought out, beyond the possibility of misunderstanding, in a comment he wrote on one of the official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...