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While Cabinet ministers looked bewilderedly at one another, President Chiang answered his own question with a torrent of shrill words. "We are not united! We do not work hard to make our country strong. . . . Not only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many...
...sheepskin will be bound to his books, and only those will be able to luxuriate in an atmosphere of near beer, pretzels and music whose consciences have become muscle-bound from much wrestling or who have taken precautions to provide themselves with umbrellas for protection against the examinatory torrent...
Despite the presence of eight fire engines, detachments of police, and the groups of fireman who swarmed over the ladders with hose in hand, the crowd pressed close upon the building in their enthusiasm, with the result that many overzealous individuals were completely routed when a torrent of water, unleashed from the hose, escaped from a broken window. In another instance, the firemen, taunted with concerted chants of "Let it burn!" and "Damn the firemen", turned the hose and swept the crowd, somewhat dampening the ardor of the surging ranks...
...collection includes three copies of Robinson's first book of poems, "The Torrent and the Night Before," presented respectively to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles W. Eliot '53, and Charles Eliot Norton '46. The author attended Harvard College from 1891 to 1893, and as the poems were written between 1889 and 1896, some were written while he was still a student here. There are also some first editions of other books by Robinson which he presented to Amy Lowell and a few letters which he wrote her in his small, neat, and unreadable hand...
Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...