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...University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic, he was made Director of Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1923, is there still...
...find itself at the new fulcrum. In exalted London circles of birth, finance and politics last week novel and weighty things were being said. One of these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard saying with approval that what "they" are now thinking about is to revive the effect of certain obscure pre-War secret treaties and engagements. Under these Britain was to have looked on understandingly while potent Germans obtained as peacefully...
...blind waste of this universe. But this I can surely say: that it is better to be happy than sad, better to be active than impotent." He admits that he has taken a good deal on faith: "I have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple, and it makes religion simple. I took God's help for granted in the work I was doing." A pragmatist who believes that the proof of the pill is in the action, he defines truth as "ideas which...
...native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected, bedraggled and burning with thirst, they made their way back to Italian Eritrea...
...Province]. But these men would walk there to starve. Even now they bring water from Italy to the men of Eritrea, and this after a year's preparation. I can assure you that the English would have had condensers in Eritrea after the first underofficer reported a great thirst. "Yes, the men from the battleships would all have been there with condensers. A great staff would have been formed, with new badges and regimentals-'His Majesty's Royal Condenser Corps.' And they would have boasted that there was more water, better water, than in London...