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...While corruption and bribery are openly practiced, no one dares protest. While bandits infest the land, the Government remains indifferent. The [Nationalist] party has ceased to be a party, the [Nationalist] Government has ceased to be a government, the nation has ceased to be a nation...
...palaces designed, he summoned Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later infest. Just so, last week, the Supreme Economic Council of Soviet Russia, represented by Amtorg Trading Corp. in Manhattan, signed contracts to retain, the Detroit architectural firm of Albert Kahn, Inc., as consulting architects for two years of Russia's famed five-year industrialization program which calls for the expenditure...
...uncompleted British airship R-100 was recently pulled out of her hangar at Howden, Yorkshire, was revealed last week. Rats, less cunning than those which infest but do not destroy surface ships, had invaded the hangar and threatened to eat the R-100's fabric. While the airship was safely out of doors, poison killed scores and scores of the rats...
...American who comes to Oxford at the beginning of Michaelmas Term is likely to wonder why this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars...
...your issue of Aug. 8, on p. 17, under the subheading "Ooze," writing of the Congo valley, you say "lions, tigers, etc." Kindly inform me if the species of tiger inhabiting the Congo valley is in any way related to the blind-tigers which infest all valleys in America? Query: Are there any tigers to be found in Africa, outside of zoological gardens and menageries...