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...have worked from the game point of view. Three paintings by Prescott Jones contain a delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example of the effect of the wants color medium when used in its proper sphere which is especially appropriate when an effect of many colored variations of light and dark is desired...
Delivering the plenary address, S. A. Woodd-Cahusac, Princeton '40, declined to draw up any definite program based on the conference's deliberations, but pointed out that the one common denominator of the discussions had been the question of the proper sphere and extent of governmental activity...
Finally, Signor Mussolini himself, speaking before 65,000 Blackshirts in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Fascist Movement, did not list specific demands on France, as expected, but merely repeated many a Mussolini bromide: the axis is strong, the democracies are wrong, the Mediterranean is Italy's sphere of influence, Italy's biggest wish is peace and biggest need is more ships, cannon and airplanes. Specifically on the subject of Mediterranean conflicts with the French, he said openly that the next move was France...
...very day that a German major-general urged the wholesale peaceful invasion of Latin America by the cultural prophets of the German Reich, in the economic sphere the United States launched its first major counter-attack against Nazi penetration of South America. The United States-Brazil trade agreements put a sudden halt to the growth of the German economic domination of Brazil, and provided a strong impulse to the growth of closer economic alliance of the United States with its Latin-American neighbors...
...countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...