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...last week calculated publicly. Some idea of possible requirements could be got from the fact that, if the U. S. ever has 50,000 warplanes in actual service, it will have to have around 75,000 pilots and 750,000 men on the ground (at the rule of thumb of ten men on the ground to keep one man in the air) for its air force alone...
...need Yeats's mind to work them: they will not work at all for the majority who will find Yeats's synthetic occultism repellent. The book remains, nevertheless, a remarkable integration of Yeats's feel of himself with his knowledge of mankind. By its rules of thumb he was enabled to sharpen the edges of his knifelike insights into men's personalities, to face the conflicts of his own nature with increased resolve, and to go on writing, up to his death, poems that presented what both his art and his life were aimed to present...
...talks of his "Alma Mater, the greatest center of learning and enlightenment in the world, and institution so stable that its influence is always greater than a particular set of men who control it at one time." Here he has hit the head of the nail instead of his thumb. Then, too, it is very doubtful that universities have as much immediate, concrete influence on the nation as Mr. Sargent attributes to them...
...personal damage done in grade-crossing and other accidents, U. S. railroads pay out over $20,000,000 a year. For damage done to them, they collect little or nothing. Average jury's rule of thumb: the carrier is always wrong. Last week the rule was proved by an exception...
...seas where the Germans or the English choose to make a threat. If this policy were followed, soon we would hardly dare to run a boat from New York to Savannah. But the Mediterranean is a different matter. Flanked by suez and Gibraltar, it rests well under the British thumb, and so is a natural operating area for German U-boats. This stretch of water is bound to bring trouble to any neutral who dabbles in it, and none that gets out of it could be accused of over-cautiousness, America, having no vital interests there, can and should pull...