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...pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit of his own native land? Do we outrun ourselves in thus eulogizing the United States of America? No. The United States of America is a great and glorious institution and is undoubtedly a success...
Next day, after Cabinet meeting, the President was more versed in coal complexities. The industry, it seemed to him, was undergoing a period of adjustment. Supply had outrun demand. Small operators, or operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...
Karl Lindmuth, the surprise of the evening, led the Crimson heavyweight by a full yard when the broke the tape. Behind Miller came McAllister, the "flying cop", and other sprinters whom Miller has repeatedly outrun this season. The distance was covered in 6 3-5 seconds...
...true proportion here as they are in other questions of social benefit. One can but remind that the minutiae of no one or even several subjects should be allowed to obscure a complete and philosophical out took; that memory work should never consist of transient facts and should never outrun the capacity and training aimed at their utilization. The student should not be competled to stack his has in too overflowing forks-full...
...Significance. Standing before this bear-cage in the literary zoo we say: What an enormous creature! How shaggy and powerful! How he lumbers about, yet they say a grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt bruted labor through it. Mr. Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully...