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...convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist, he had the background of a hard bitten practicality to use as a leaven for the political dough of Hamilton and Adams...
...Washington Hon. Henry L. Stimson sent notes to China and Japan urging them to confine military operations to "the requirements of international law," thus tacitly refusing to invoke the famed Kellogg Pact. Outside China all this seemed perhaps academic, dull. To Chinese "students," young firebrand-patriots who are the leaven in China's lump, it seemed: 1) that the Great Powers had betrayed China into Japan's hands; 2) that in appealing to the Powers gullible Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang had made this betrayal possible. For him, Death! In the streets of Nanking, Shanghai, Peiping students...
...some unlikely chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven. The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz. The night after the feast a father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...
...student in being only the raw material with which he is to work. Combined in varying proportions as determined by the individual and the college, they mark the outside limits of his achievements. But both system and native talent together can do little unless there is added the leaven of personal endeavor and desire to learn, and this is what no combination of tests can reveal...