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...some as teachers, others with department stores or with publishing firms. Some others are to be married while a number of them have no definite plans as yet. And a goodly number are planning to go on to graduate study. The commencement speaker viewing this set of statistics might remark that new avenues of opportunity are opening up for young girls every day--for careers in business or in education. Or the more pessimistic speaker would cite these figures as a challenge to the young graduates, for there are still many barriers to young ladies in this man's world...
...Their chief instrument is the forced government loan. A quota is assigned to each category of industry or business, and the businessmen belonging to each group are ordered to attend a meeting at which they are addressed by Communist Party organizers. Sometimes the Communists open the meeting with the remark: "Have you brought buns? This may take some time." Speaking in relays, the Communists harangue the meeting until the bonds are bought...
...Money is the sole American standard of value," said Joad. "The nations are heading for hell and it is America which is leading us there . . . [American influence] corrupts, infects and pollutes whatever it touches." Angry shouts of "Shame!" greeted Joad's remark, "What a genius the Americans have for coming into a war late, on the winning side...
...young Emperor continued his Chinese lessons, studied Annamite chronicles, browsed through French history, literature and economics. He was especially fond of books on Henry IV, the dynast from Navarre who began the Bourbon rule in France with the cynical remark, "Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented...
...paraphrase, in part, of a remark by the first Duke of Wellington, who advised the son of another peer: "Never miss a chance to pass water; I never...