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...were never made. The present budget is following a precedent, not creating one. The point is somewhat academic. Germany, no one doubts it, will pay; nevertheless, the principle of crediting money before it has been received is obviously unsound. Critics of the Minister of Finance repeated the well-known proverb : "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched...
There is a proverb in tennis that a doubles combination is as strong as its weakest player, and this was born out in the match between Ingraham and Captain Pfaffmann, and Captain Howard and Holm-Smith. Both Crimson players were in top form, and were equally strong. It was therefore not surprising that they should win their match with comparative ease, only allowing their opponents to take five games...
...library training. If, however, the purpose of this latest idea is to cultivate an instinctive love of books and reading, it might be accomplished much more effectively by personal suggestion, and a closer cooperation between library and school boards, than by routine mass instruction. To paraphrase a trite proverb, anyone can lead the student to a book, but only his own inclinations can induce him to develop a genuine taste for reading...
...prophet, it is agreed, is without honor in his own country; and what with oil scandals and Labor ministries, the proverb might be stretched to describe the popular attitude toward national governments. The growing skepticism of the ability of the Federal government to compete with private enterprise in vigor or efficiency is sufficiently strong to make astounding the news that under--or despite government management the "Leviathan" has won the speed honors of the North Atlantic. But while this record is a pleasing tribute to the efficiency of the "Leviathan's officers, it serves by force of contrast to direct...
...owner of Le Petit Parisien and close friend of Premier Poincaré) for an informal discussion of Franco-American relations. Afterwards, M. Jusserand was asked by reporters what M. Dupuy had had to say. The Ambassador, who like the French Senator is a newspaper man, replied with a French proverb: "Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux" (literally, "The wolves do not eat themselves among one another...