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...that I desired that in the political campaign the reactionary elements remain my enemies and be the ones to fight against my candidacy. I have won through the will of the workers, and my Government is due to them and will be helped by them as long as I fulfil my obligations...
...Leland's statement cites the many times he has tried in vain to see Mr. Ford to straighten out the tangle, and flatly declares that the latter has openly refused to fulfil his part of the agreement. This attitude on Mr. Ford's part is attributed by Col. Leland to a desire for revenge; in 1902 Henry Ford was dismissed from the Detroit Automobile Co., in which Col. Leland, a pioneer in the industry, was a prominent factor. Leland disclaims any part in Ford's dismissal, but he states that Ford had declared, "I wouldn...
...also discussed the great contributions to human welfare and culture made by the science of Chemistry and the appreciation of the Fine Arts, closing with the prediction "that in order that Harvard may fulfil her work of service to the nation in these three lines, the people will pour into her treasury ten million dollars...
...seemed to many in the audience that all this frantic striving after gigantic effects did not, could not, fulfil Beethoven's expectations for his magnum opus. The Master was straining every nerve to be really Heaven-storming. Not content with a mere orchestra, he had to have a quartet of solo-singers and a huge choir: something decidedly new and revolutionary for his time. He treated the voices brutally: made them sing a series of long high notes that are almost unmanageable...
Nearly 400 of these men are out for some athletic team, which roughly shows the number of students who take part in athletics for pleasure rather than to fulfil the physical training requirement...