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...believe in the intrepid soul of the American people; but I believe also in its horse-sense. ... I, too, believe in individualism . . . but I don't believe that in the names of that sacred word a few powerful interests should be permitted to make industrial cannon-fodder of the lives of half the population of the United States. I believe in the sacredness of private property, which means that I do not believe it should be subjected to the ruthless manipulation of professional gamblers in the stock-markets. . . . "I propose an orderly, explicit and practical group of fundamental remedies...
...Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet River the translators have done their somewhat bumpy level best to transcribe Author Leonov's highly poetic but naturalistic style...
...ordered his oats examined. For three days, Government chemists analyzed samples of grass and leaves which Phar Lap might have nibbled. Then W. W. Vincent, chief of the Western District of the Food & Drug Administration, announced that tests on grass from a plot whence Trainer null had pulled green fodder for his charge showed .01 grains of arsenic per pound. The poison could have been blown into the plot of grass from nearby trees which were lately sprayed. The spray, in addition to the arsenic, contained arsenate of lead. But Dr. Karl Meyer of the University of California, after analyzing...
...when he brought the Carlisle Indians here to play Harvard in 1911. "The Indians liked to play Harvard," he said, "and had learned to have a high regard for the teams. At this same time they played every year a little college named Susquehanna which they considered their fodder. Whenever anyone made a particularly brilliant play they called it 'a Harvard play;' when he made a bonehead play it was termed a 'Susquehanna...
...this college. When there is no actual motive for trading haymakers with somebody, especially if you do not know him, an already acquired habit of indifference is likely to act as a double deterrent. This is particularly true if you suspect that you are being recruited as cannon-fodder for some fast-stepping varsity cauliflower vender...