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...first dictators in history was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. In 458 B.C. he was appointed dictator by the Roman Senate, being called from the plow to save Rome from foreign invasion . . . Having fulfilled the task . . . imposed upon him by the Senate, he returned to his plow ... The first dictator of our times was Lenin. He went to Russia in 1917 [from exile in Switzerland] ... He called to the Russian armies ... to drop their rifles, fraternize with the Germans, and run home "to loot the loot," and then he seized power from the provisional government . . . After that, Lenin concluded peace with Germany...
...become an orator, a student must plow through dozens of speeches, from Rienzi to Wendell Phillips' Toussaint L'Ouverture. "Learning these speeches puts forms into your head," says Staley. "Instead of saying, 'I am about to tell you the story of a Negro, Toussaint L'Ouverture,' one can paraphrase, 'I am about to tell you the story of a man, James Michael Curley, gleaned from the reluctant testimony of his enemies, the knaves who despised him because he defeated them." As the new semester began last week, Founder Staley gave the new class...
Died. Dwight Deere Wiman, 55, Illinois-born Broadway producer (The Little Show, The Country Girl), an heir to the John Deere plow fortune; after a brief illness; in Hudson...
...turned earth behind his plow was gray and cool, but he couldn't take off his shoes for he was afraid he would cut his foot accidentally...
Simple Tools. After Holmes had won the farmers' confidence, he took the next step: teaching them how to use improved, but still simple toolse.g., turning plows and five-tooth cultivators. A simple form of thresher introduced by Holmes made it possible for his farmers to thresh their wheat crops in three days instead of ten. The seven days saved allowed many farmers to plow their land for the next crop before the soil under the wheat stubble got too hard...