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During the past month cataclysmic events have taken place in Europe. We have had a revelation of power which had been hidden from even the military experts. 'The Nazi Juggernaut has gone crashing across Europe, heedless of the resistance of the small powers, threatening the French with imminent defeat and raising the specter of an invasion of England. Whatever may be, said of these victories, they raise problems whose very existence occasion the most acute anxiety in this country. These victories oblige us, I believe, to reviser positions which appeared perfectly tenable last autumn...
...plant is in hock to RFC. Its public libraries can afford to replace only 20,000 of 85,000 dog-eared books which are thumbed to tatters each year. More than a third of Philadelphia's annual revenues go to service old debts. Expensive subways, promoted during the heedless '203, are sealed and empty catacombs; Philadelphia lacked the money to run them or to pay for them...
...Polio is a cosmopolitan disease, heedless of climate, as deadly in the Arctic as on the Equator. But for some reason, more than half of all cases in the world occur in the U. S. and Canada, in the summertime. Reported cases in the U. S. from 1915 to the end of 1939 total 139,337. About 75%, of polio victims do not develop paralysis, and countless children pass through mild, "abortive," flu-like attacks, which produce complete immunity...
...grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free, but modern warfare, in which the machine crushes man as never before, gives peace loving people added realization of the danger to civilization of permitting...
...than Falstaff why Henry IV* is richly worth reviving. One of Shakespeare's most vigorous and varied chronicle plays, it rings with martial clamor, abounds in striking personages, lights up momentous times. In Part I, the rebellion of the Percys and their confederates against Henry IV opposes the heedless, gallant Hotspur to the cooler, better-balanced Prince Hal. There is rousing theatre in Hotspur's eloquent defiance; warmth in his half-boyish, half-intense love scene with his wife; pathos in his death...