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...firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile stock-traders. Though few Wall streeters have ever read Oswald Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandcs, it was easy for them to imagine a world in the grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will seethe in war and revolt; all mankind is doomed to a steadily decreasing standard of living...
...Mann, Spengler and Stresemann. The son of the House of Mann stubbed his toe against life when his father died. The family business had to be sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...Back 24 160 5.10 Rose Poly. Inst. Price, J. M. '32 Tackle 19 195 6.2 N. W. Mil. & Nav. Ac. Ray, B. '32 Guard 19 190 6. North. High Schimmelphennig,I.R. '30 End 21 175 5.11 Midland Col. Simenson, E. G. '32 Guard 21 180 6.1 State Teach. Col. Spengler, D. S. '32 Tackle 20 185 6.2 Juniata Col. Stecker, R. J. '32 Back 19 160 6. Hazelton High Stuart, A. W. '30 Back 22 150 5.7 Alfred Univ. Suarez, E. W. '32 Guard 20 190 6. Mobile High Timberlake, E. J. '31 Back 20 175 5.10 St. Luke...
...chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Hueffer...
...Germany, Oswald Spengler lucubrates that Western civilization, now toppling over a wave crest, declines by morphological...