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...Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with apprehended unpopularity of the decision. Then ensues a search for some means to avoid effort. Postponement in its various forms is welcomed. Some so-called compromise is adopted which leaves all difficulties unsolved...
...about learning for himself. The two objectives ultimately reduce themselves to one. If the desire is created, if the flame is lit, then the other thing will follow as a rule, though not invariably. The question is, therefore, under what system the young freshman is likely to catch fire soonest. If the situation is visualized as lying between Professor Fossil droning away in his lecture room over the heads of 300 young undergraduates, and thirty alert and eager young tutors taking hold of that freshman mass in groups of ten individuals, then there is little doubt whence the greater urge...
...welter of Bulgarian names which the announcement sent rumbling across cafe tables, the one soonest forgotten was unfortunate Journalist Pundeff whose murder was being officially investigated. Every Bulgar realized that Pundeff was a mere symbol. The real battle was between Professor Alexander Tsankoff, Minister of Instruction, onetime Prime Minister (1923-26), and Ivan Mihailoff, leader of the dreaded Imro...
...collection. The burning, to quote from Dr. Macnish again, was of two varieties. "Sometimes the body is consumed by an open fiante flickering over it at other times there is merely a smothered heat without any visible flame." Dr. Macnish was inclined to be lieve that "brandy kills soonest, rum is next in point of fatality, and after that whiskey...
Most potent though not soonest to walk the plank would be famed Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor (Prime Minister) of the German Republic during 1922-23, and present Chairman of the rapidly expanding and resurgent Hamburg-Amerikas-Linie which has obsorbed the Kosmos, Stinnes and German-Australian lines thus bringing its tonnage up to 850,000, as against...