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...Bible and Shakespeare forms the very backbone of the study of any literature, while a through understanding of two Ancient (or Modern) authors is of definite worth, if, however, this background is not obtained until two thirds of one's general study has been completed, only the smallest portion of its purpose can be realized...
Furthermore, he wrote: "Since the unbridled race for armaments is on the one hand the effect of the rivalry among nations and on the other the cause of the withdrawal of enormous sums from the public wealth, and hence not the smallest of contributors to the current extraordinary- crisis, we cannot refrain from renewing on this subject the wise admonitions of our predecessor * which thus far have not been heeded...
...time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight this pest, increased their acreage, pushed their production up & up. In 1926 they set a new record of 18,000,000 bales. Last year they grew some 14,250,000 bales of which less than half...
...Which does not include State universities, or the nation's 350 smallest institutions, for which complete figures are lacking...
...counting the Prime Minister, there were only ten Ministers. It was not only the first Coalition Cabinet since the War but also the smallest, most mobile. A place was held open for Great Britain's last Coalition Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, but that wary Welshman was not so sure. He realized the necessity for the new Government and he sent his right-hand man, Sir Herbert Samuel, to represent him on it. But he realized fully that this was a bankers' Cabinet put into office to get a certain thing done as quickly as possible, that...