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Stumbling Blocks Loom...
...strength comes as a result of adversity, the skaters may expect to rebound from a rough time this Christmas to find smoother sailing in February and March against their traditional Ivy League foes. Right now such future opponents as Yale and Dartmouth loom as heavy favorites, with Princeton as an even-money choice...
...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell. But in half a century of blissful self-delusion he has failed to perceive that the family automobile is the most monstrous engine...
Crazy Horse, mounted on a wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
...long run and the long view, said Dewey, reconstruction was a straight business proposition and should not be left in the hands of "social planners who do not know a loom from a corn-husker." Said he, with an eye on his business-minded audience: "It is time we got business men into a business...