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...President Butler's single-mindedness but in spite of his versatility. A voracious appetite for responsibility was his shining virtue and his chief vice. While it nurtured Columbia, it distracted Butler into politics, lured him into a maze of inconsistencies that may have kept him from achieving his fondest ambition: the Presidency...
...fondest childhood memories was of meeting Rudyard Kipling, who was a friend of her father and who had vacationed near her home in Brattlebore, Vermont. After coming to Harvard, she lived a quiet life in Boston, devoting her major interest to the University...
...Prospect. As practically as it can in a white man's country, the Government of Jan Smuts supports a better deal for the blacks. Among other reasons for this attitude, Smuts knows that the Union's rigid color bar is also a bar to one of his fondest dreams-a Greater South Africa, built around the Union and embracing British territories below the Congo. The blacks in Britain's crown colonies and protectorates do not have equality. But under the British Colonial Office they get a better break than they do in the Union. This fact...
...single day by Allied planes rose to 8,000. The greatest U.S. air fleet ever launched on a single mission sent 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters against three synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. This was air power in force to fit the fondest visions of Mitchell and Douhet-and more accurately employed than they had even dreamed in their...
Seigle is 29 and married. He was practicing law in New York when the army called him, but his fondest memory covers his days as a pitcher on the Brooklyn College baseball team and his try-out with the N. Y. Giants...