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...Senator Jim Reed, a Democrat. He is dissociated from his Democratic colleagues but he has put up a fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth fire and brimstone on the World Court, on the Debt settlements. He is one of the fiercest attackers of prohibition. You see that map with the big weather-worn face? That is Mr. Borah. He is our finest orator. The galleries are always full when he is going to speak. He belongs to the other party but his stand on foreign relations-he is chairman...
...youthful suffering is dismissed by the world because the suffering is temporary. Youth forgets its love affairs, but the fire burns deep. Perhaps in its very intensity it burns itself out. Young Woodley, written by John Van Druten (an English schoolmaster), depicts the time when the blaze is fiercest. Young Woodley has fallen in love with the pretty wife of his mathematics tutor...
...south, the long convex side of the sausage, the French went into action, and there the fat was hottest and the frying was fiercest. After a heavy artillery barrage, the advance was begun. The trouble from the French standpoint was that they were advancing squarely towards the mountain ridge that forms the backbone of the Riff sausage and had to fight separately for every little foothill. Nonetheless, the losses apparently were not heavy, and an advance was made several miles deep on a 40-mile front. Thirteen of the blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began...
Already half a mile above land, their ship was being drawn with incredible speed by this last, fiercest rod of wind another mile upward...
...final installment on a Sudan irrigation scheme, which is sponsored by the Government, because it provides employment, the Left Wing of the Labor Party split with MacDonald. The measure was passed 397 to 43 votes. The 43 represent the dissentient voices from the Clyde. Neil McLean, one of the fiercest Clyde-siders, was particularly indignant and practically accused the Government of treachery to the workers...