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...Carnegie people will turn over a picture of his store of knowledge, telling how he stacks up mentally with his fellows. Admittedly the exams do not test "the ability to express ideas in writing, skill in laboratory techniques, research ability, and originality." Admittedly they are experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons the exams have been tried on first-year graduate guinea-pigs at those universities with some success...
...Ambassador Steinhardt; as diplomatic life all over Europe speeded up in the wake of the Welles mission, it was plain that, although Sumner Welles made no statement, raised no hopes, he looked to many a European like the agent of a going concern who had entered the realm of disorder. Here & there peace moves looked up despite official frowns-membership of Union Now jumped to 10,000 in Britain; reports of Hitler's real peace terms were rumored in city after city. But no official acts encouraged them. As Europeans noted with fear in their hearts the brightening skies...
Before and behind our armament of steel and concrete rises the spiritual armament of our people. It protects us against offensives in the realm of mind...
...which pursue vogue too breathlessly make ladies stick out in the wrong places, stylish frictions often make nations look silly. Recent fashion in creating conflicts has been to discover an oppressed minority. Last week, as long-smoldering Hungarian-Rumanian feelings suddenly flared up, the style slipped over into the realm of absurdity...
...large as the U. S. After high German and British bids for Saudi Arabia's oil were in, Japan bid frantically still higher. Standard bid low but kept reminding the King of what German or Japanese-or even British-agents might soon be doing to disrupt his realm if let in on the ground floor. When he finally closed with Standard, His Majesty exclaimed: "Gentlemen, the Japanese offered me twice as much for one-third of what you now obtain...