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...doubt that each step was the natural and proper sequel to what had preceded. The series not only was logical, as it presented itself prospectively to the mind of President Lowell, but (which is much more important) is logical now that it is realized and can be viewed in retrospect. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...American dollar. . . . Credit is being expanded and normal jobs are coming back. . . . September alone shows an increase of 3 6/10% in employment. . . . Let no man say that things could not have been worse. Things could have been so much worse that today would look like prosperity in retrospect...
...views this play in retrospect, it appears a little crude, the superior craftsmanship and conception of the Ulysses play have somewhat spoiled it for anyone familiar with the latter. It has some of the ridiculousness of the typical Eugene O'Neill mood, and the method of running words together making sense by their sound effect and their individual connotation rather than by their conventional sequence meaning has not been as yet made sufficiently forceful...
...remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...
...past few years some of our prominent religious leaders have professed repentance, and have declared that they will be on the side of peace next time even when the drums beat. If their professions mean anything, they ought to fight every attempt to associate religion and war, even in retrospect. Let us build memorials, if we must, to our war dead, and let them express our grief at our folly and wickedness in sending these young men to death; but let us not help prepare another war by sanctifying the last one through associating its losses and sacrifices with...