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...Bethel, Conn., Barnum was born on July 5, 1810. He arrived late for the holiday. But it was safer...
Japan is without question a gainer by the Treaty, obtaining, besides much prestige, such security for her possessions as the provisions already quoted indicate. But the other powers gain in this way also; all four can feel that their lands in the Pacific are safer. In this fact lies the central importance of the Four-Power Treaty; it lessons the need for naval armament. If it fails, says Senator Lodge, disarmament will fail. As soon as certain of the Senators can make up their minds as to whether the treaty is good or bad--despite the undeniable handicap...
...four-mile race is a far safer thing to row for the man's general health and physical fitness than the distance of one mile and five-sixteenths. Heart trouble is generally traced to the shorter races and seldom to the longer races. Had I my way I would have no races under four miles for inter-university contests, as that is the only distance to bring out a true test of oarsmanship...
...Hearst organs or forget that the soldiers of the United States, of Great Britain and of Canada were comrades in arms in the Armageddon of the ages. If they could die together, surely we can live together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense...
...costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...