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...able name-caller himself. The battle of the Post and Rocky Mountain News was costly to both combatants. Because the Scripps-Howard morning News started an evening edition to compete with the Post, Bonfils brought out a morning Post to harass the News. For two years they tried to outstrip each other in expensive promotion stunts until in 1928 lively little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Denver, made peace with Publisher Bonfils. Scripps-Howard withdrew its evening paper, Bonfils his morning one. There was amiable talk about how the remaining sheets would "deserve the respect and friendship of each...
...general, the tendency of France to outstrip America and England in modernistic productions is apparent. Marie Laurencin, whose covers of Vanity Fair are known in this country, has a few color lithographs which are really mid-Victorian in comparison with some of the work of her countrymen. Pablo Picasso may be seen in two colored etchings which are characteristic of his latest and more incomprehensible moments; George Braque and Andre Lurcat contribute to the confusion of one who would like very much to understand. On the other hand, Jules Pascin, whose career among the sordid elements of Paris closed...
...synthetic competition mount, in Germany, in the U. S., until in 1929 Chile provided only 25% of the world production of all forms of nitrates. A new threat loomed at Hopewell, Va., where Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. has built a vast nitrogen fixation plant which might in time outstrip even the I. G. Farben. The industry was overproduced. A long monopoly had been broken; the effects were manifest throughout the entire structure of Chilean economics. Last week, in Paris, form was given to the most recent, most ambitious, of all efforts to remedy this desperate situation. There was projected...
...reads as if it had been exceedingly well translated). The hero is not so much the man as the idea, Napoleon. Not that Author Delteil warps the facts of history; but he gives them an original and Delteilish emphasis. Napoleon's driving dream, he says, was to outstrip Alexander, to conquer the East. "From the cradle to the grave he was impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life is but a sketch-sometimes even the contrary-of what he dreams. We dream...
...When we have industrialized the Soviet Union and set the mujiks [peasants] to driving tractors, let the honorable capitalists with their 'civilization' try to outstrip us. Then we shall see which country can be called backward and which the vanguard of human progress...