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...much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff of Generalissimo Chiang in refusing Japan's demands, if he was bluffing...
...probability or actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party and taking up the gage of combat...
...futile attitude of antiquarianism or ancestor-worship that Harvard staked its claim to the educational limelight. The year brought challenges, many of which have been successfully met and conquered. Taking up the gage of increasing public indifference to education, the college has spread its tentacles throughout the country, justifying by national scholarships its position as a national institution. In the top brackets of learning, roving professorships promise well to bridge the gaps that modern specialization has brought in wide fields of scholastic endeavor. The symposia of scholars, gathered in September to disseminate their knowledge over the council board...
...authenticated spy stories, notably MGM's Rendezvous, it contains two memorable scenes: 1) a brilliant reproduction of the firing of one of the famed Ger man long-range siege guns trained on Paris, followed by its destruction by secret serv ice sabotage; 2) the examination in a bag gage car of a coffin in which the fleeing Alan is supposed to have hidden...
...became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between 1868 and 1895 Henry Bacon's name appears 25 times on the Beaux Arts lists, his canvases always being hung "on the line." Two of his pictures which became best sellers as steel engravings: The Boston Boys & General Gage, Little Bopeep...