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While most students of politics are flooding the presses with frantic expressions of "the great ideals of our democratic way of life," Professor Spykman has written a primer of power for America which is a direct descendant of Machiavelli's handbook for princes. His coolly objective approach to the present crisis is a relief both from the disciples of sweetness and light and from the evangelists of American imperialism. The author, Professor to International Relations at Yale, devotes his efforts to contemporary problems of American foreign policy. The major task of the book is to define America's position among...
...Carboloy's was cemented tungsten carbide, an exceedingly hard metal composition important for cutting tools. Remington Arms' was tetracene, an ammunition primer, which, the Justice Department contended, the ever-logical Germans licensed Remington to sell to the British "for shooting quail and pheasants but not for shooting Germans...
...reassure nervous pants-prospects, Vogue printed "A Primer on Pants," specifying: When to Wear Slacks (in the country, war service duty, other hard work); How to Buy Them (snug-fitting or closely woven fabrics to hold shape; with fly front to camouflage breadth through middle); How to Wear Them (with simple jewelry, low-heeled shoes, and unself-consciously); then destructively summed up: "Slacks look wonderfully well when they're right, incredibly bad when they're wrong. . . . A skirt is never wrong...
...result of the meeting, a primer of precautions has been written, outlining the methods of protection and preservation of all types of objects, ranging from statues to old masters. Valuable pieces have been listed according to resistance to fragmentation and general durability, and precautions against breakage have been evolved for each type...
Officials of 16 art museums and collection groups met in Fogg to develop this primer of art defense, and completed the task at the beginning of this week. Among other conclusions reached were a summation of risks that pieces of art will face, and a listing of rules that guide action in case of air raid and fire...