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...good of it, and wish to contribute of their best to it. On that basis, as Ticknor rightly said. Harvard's athletes have always shown on the field a remarkable amount of team spirit. But the idea that spectators can win games by the intensity of their gaze and the power of their lungs is not exalted at Harvard, firstly, because such pressure does not seem an especially admirable test of inward spirit, and secondly, because the idea that games can be so won is ninetenths a fallacy. Boston Transcript...
...turn our gaze from today to tomorrow, we hope that this day of liberation from foreign occupation marks a step forward on the way to true peace and complete liberty...
...Nature's aid in recent years, however, has come a deus ex machina: U. S. capital and U. S. industrial methods in the persons of the four potent Brothers Guggenheim. Originally focused on Chile by copper, their gaze wandered in 1924 to nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...
Mass Production. When the speculative gaze of the Guggenheim brothers was arrested by Chilean nitrate, that commodity was, and most of it still is, extracted from the earth by the antiquated, piddling Shanks process. The "caliche," or nitrate-bearing earth, is broken up with explosives, loaded into cars by hand. At the plant it is boiled in small tanks to leach out the nitrate, which is then run off as liquor and dried into commercial form. The Guggenheims were not en- thusiastic about the Shanks process. Undoubtedly they thought of Daniel Cowan Jackling and his mass production methods in copper...
...Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...