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Those who object to the plan concern themselves largely with practical difficulties, but cannot, apparently, offer any substitute whatsoever. It is true that the makers of schedules must be patient and thoughtful, but the task before them is not Herculean. As for past tradition, it is, after all, largely a matter a venerability and not necessarily of utility. And only a little breadth of imagination is required to forsee a worthy and comprehensive tradition of amateurism in football solidly bolstered by the seven Ivy Colleges...
...Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone will destroy the enemies of civilization." The Congress closed day after all the bishops had gone to the Northwestern-Ohio State football game...
...When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish...
...unscrupulous opposition groups have overridden his expressed desire. He has gone too far to retreat now. Even this magical manipulator of ideas and men cannot reconcile the irreconcilable. Unless re-consideration is forced in Congress, the presidential vote must be invoked. If so, we may expect a truly Herculean combat between the executive and the legislature which will be the strongest test of Roosevelt's power and character that has yet arisen...
General Johnson hung up the receiver and dusted his hands. A strike as easy to settle as that was hardly a worthy labor for such a Herculean strike settler. He went back to the Drake Hotel, next day celebrated his 52nd birthday by eating a cake neatly frosted with a Blue Eagle...