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...able to prolong the country's destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate industry and commerce. "The most surprising statement made to me was the following: " 'We believe that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current is so strong that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this revolution...
...England the colleges feed the government with a steady stream of young talent which is absorbed through the lower appointive positions. In America no such entrance to politics is at present available and can be supplied only by a group of Public Service Colleges in the larger universities, colleges which would supplant the local party club as the origin of American statesmen...
Strictly a field science is oceanography. For investigations of great ocean rivers like the Labrador & Humboldt Currents and the Gulf Stream, of wind-driven surface currents, of the habits and distribution of marine life and of many another aspect of the sea's vast and various lore, oceanographers must record temperatures not only at the surface but at considerable depths. Nearly a century ago a Frenchman named Aimé used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth...
...adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, America's John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small, spectacled, fair-haired, with a tight-lipped mouth like the late Calvin Coolidge's. from which purrs an endless stream of speech, 45-year-old Missionary Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities, as when he writes about James Joyce's Work in Progress as: "intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation . . . oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse . . . clangorous...
...steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts at a low temperature and the water bursts forth in a stream, throwing a curtain of water over the outside of the window...