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...admit it is true that all the social wealth of our great city does not reside in our district, and that handsomer houses do decorate other parts of our municipality and of our suburbs. That, however, does not diminish one iota the character of our inhabitants or their determination each to fulfill his part in improving the lives of his people and the homes in which they live...
...defining a general policy. It does not mean that our Government is to part with one iota of its national resources without complete protection to the public interest. I have already stated that where the Government is engaged in public works for purposes of flood control, of navigation, of irrigation, of scientific research or national defense, or in pioneering a new art, it will at times necessarily produce power or commodities as a byproduct. But they must be a by-product of the major purpose, not the major purpose itself...
...failed to realize his personification of Harvard's gentleman liness and scholarship. Any one of these experiences would be more than sufficient to make the announcement of Professor Copeland's resignation from the Faculty tragic if the fact of his resigning made it conceivable that he would lose one iota of his nearness to the University. He is and ever will be Harvard's as much as University Hall is Harvard's, and into Hollis Hall he has, with the charm of the magician, brought the Harvard of the past, the present, and it is to be hoped--the future...
...Commons, shouted: "The Yorks are on a joyride that costs the Exchequer probably a thousand pounds an hour ($4,860). . . . Why aren't they going to Australia on an ordinary steamer? . . . They are good riddance at the uttermost ends of the earth, and it wouldn't matter an iota if they never returned...
...poisoning to gain his ends, announced himself greatly troubled last week by aspersions publicly cast in his direction that he is playing politics. Pinked upon this nice point of military honor, General Kondylis forthwith dissolved the minute political party of which he was nominally the head, relaxed not one iota his dictatorial powers...