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...room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...Only in the case of such composers as Bruckner or Mahler who try to imitate the Ninth and fail through lack of sustained inspiration, do you begin to worry about form, and notice how the composer has to prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which often retard the music rather than help it. Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement, one of the most exhausting twenty minutes of singing in musical literature...
...public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government. . . . Whether such a day will ever come I know not. But never will I attempt to avert or retard it. Whenever it comes, it will be the proudest day in English history." It was such men who nurtured India's own liberal ideals and ambitions by inviting Indians into Britain's universities...
About the use in childbirth the scientists were skeptical. They considered it difficult to understand how a relaxed uterus would aid childbirth. On the contrary, it might possibly retard delivery by lack of propelling force...
Young Cotton Ed's request was backed by a letter, signed by twelve of the committee's 20 members: "To remove a clerk with the experience and background that he must have . . . would greatly impair the effectiveness of the committee work and retard general progress in vital legislation. . . . It is the desire of the committee that Mr. Smith be deferred." Signers included Isolationist Burt Wheeler, Nebraska's liberal George Norris, half a dozen brother Senators of Senator Smith (but not old Cotton Ed). Three of the signers (like old Cotton Ed) had voted against the Selective Service...