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...have already met the situation admirably by setting off Busch's letter with Marlborough's letter in parallel columns. The deadly parallel! Hun v. American! Why we went...
...Rosie's," in New Haven, swiftly became as famous as those other academic stepladders? the late "Widow" Nolan's (into Harvard) and witty John Hun's (into Princeton). Its doors widened to receive, as well as shaky seniors, floundering sub-freshmen anxious for summer work or seeking to continue their studies after expulsion from boarding schools...
From minnowhood, Sturly was curious. Feeding shoreward, along the Continental Shelf, he hailed all creatures-from poor groping Shrimps to surly Shong, the Hun Sturgeon. Curiosity became an unrest, a driving instinct to plumb Life...
...fact that the situation is a very "preoccupying feature of the national life." France finds her low birth rate an asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby is Germany's strongest weapon in her ancient feud with France. The other horn of the dilemma is the fact that French economic strength depends on a society of small land-holders, so that a new born baby has almost as great a capacity for inflicting injury...
...hun-dred per-cent American...