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...robust product. Over praise is the only complaint from which it suffers. When one goes to the theatre expecting to see "America's greatest drama," and to come away with hair on end, feeling like the proverbial jelly, it is just a little disappointing to receive only a moderate thrill, and to have the guilty suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated. Remarkable drama, artistic drama, "The Emperor Jones" assuredly is, and possibly also the greatest of its kind that America has yet produced--but that, after...
...interest in Harvard University can fail to feel a thrill of pride when he realizes that practically all of the Harvard men able to pass the physical examinations took some part of other in the defense of their country during the late war, and on one go through the transept of Memorial or on to Soldiers Field without understanding that this is no new spirit for Harvard. It is one of the traditions of the greatest American university, and I am glad to say that it is equally the tradition of all of our leading American colleges. The American college...
...silence seemed to thrill...
...carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over short distances, and once in a while heard some of the large Marconi stations. The thrill was so profound, that they went at their problems with a thousand times more energy...
...such a glow of untrammeled satisfaction pervaded the hearts of thinking men and women. At no time has the prospect of future peace seemed so bright as today when the ten-year naval holiday has begun. It is not often that the headlines carry such a real and lasting thrill. As Dr. McGilroy observed, there is nothing new we can say, yet who can keep silent...