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...square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because she wants no eastern pushing across the Balkan Peninsula into the British-dominated markets of the Near East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Trustee | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...eighteen foot trip from the Widener's doors to the nearest turn-stile, which unfortunately, is an "exit" one. Twenty-one feet three inches, however, constitutes the journey to the proper turnstile, and is addition to the longer trip, the student entering must dodge a marble pillar on each side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...that Widener is richer by the recovery of some eighteen hundred stolen volumes, the benefits of the turn-stile system are more evident. All of the recently discovered thefts were committed before this was installed. Since that time the number of missing books has decreased considerably. It is evident that the Widener customs have been effective in their methods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIDDEN LORE | 10/20/1931 | See Source »

...being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey* | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...marriage, "In Nuptias Blri were Honoratifsimi Georgil Downing... Campo exploratoris Generaliffimi." Equally interesting is the tract, "Reply of Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet Extraordinary from His Majesty of Great Britain to the Remarks of the Deputies of the Estates General upon his Memorial of December 20, 1664, Old Stile." This was printed in London "Anno...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventeenth Century Tracts, Strongly Reminiscent of Harvard in Its Infancy, Put on Display in Treasure Room | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

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