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...Linn Cady, who works the Coolidge farm at Plymouth on shares with the President (it is assessed at $700), seemed more concerned with the chores than the first officer of the realm. Once or twice he puckered his nose when he noticed Mr. Coolidge stoop to pick up something, then walk to a large pile of junk, old iron, odds and ends, between the house and the barn. It developed that the President had salvaged some rusty wire nails...
...British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...
...populist chaos in Athens, Plato joined the "thinking games" of a homely old idler, Socrates. After the latter had been obliged to swallow hemlock, the pupil proposed exchanging mob government for a Republic ruled by its best intellects. He conceived absolute values for Good, Justice and similar abstractions, a realm of ideals of which ordinary life was but the dim shadow. Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), son of a physician at the court of King Amyntas in rugged Macedon, attended the academy conducted by Plato, then went home to tutor Amyntas' fiery grandson. This lad, Alexander, after conquering...
...Smith's toothpaste and laid before Mr. Smith a program as to where these messages should be made public, how often, at what cost. This service of Lord & Thomas differed from the service rendered Mr. Smith by his sales managers in that it kept strictly in the realm of ideas. For this ideational service Mr. Smith was glad to pay Lord & Thomas 15% more than Lord & Thomas had to pay the newspapers and magazines that published the advertisements, and the latter were not grieved to see Lord & Thomas pocketing the 15%-which would have been in their publishing treasuries...
...schemes, is sufficiently challenging to the status quo to suartle opposition and suspicion. None will deny the benefit of removing prejudices, broadcasting new inventions, communicating the latest efficiency measures; but there are a host who will struggle to keep industrial cooperation from progressing further. When investigation passes beyond the realm of ideas, subjects to the real barriers to scrutiny, and suggests tariff revision; then the opposition will normally arise...