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...Both of these publications will succeed financially according to the leadership† they supply in their particular fields. From the standpoint of leading the world upward, the leadership of the News is much more important than that of Time. There are many more persons in the community the News has selected; and it is in greater need of leadership...
...support from the moderate Monarchists was obtained by promising them seats in the Cabinet. The greatest supporter of this compromise was Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister and leader of the Volkspartei (People's Party). He argued that the inclusion of the Monarchists was most desirable from every standpoint: First, the Government should honor its promise; and second, Monarohist Ministers in the Cabinet would be a real step toward linking the past with the present...
...shafts are sunk, and it would be necessary, after we got down to a sufficient depth to have the heat pumped out. It is not a commercial project and there is no money to be made out of it by myself or any one else but, from a scientific standpoint, it should be undertaken as something equally as important as polar exploration. The spot where the shaft should be sunk ought to be determined by geologists...
...Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds of tea-an eighth as much as is consumed by a British family. We can afford to buy tea-the problem remains to make us wish to. On the London Stock Exchange, shares of tea companies have...
Still to those advocating the study of the classics from the standpoint of its value as a basic training the fact that "the number of secondary schools offering four years of Latin is more than double the number offering three years in French," cannot but be seen as anything but in the highest degree encouraging. Christian Science Monitor...