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...England mist ... lay your own odds as to whether we see the sunrise over the Yard on the 30th of May or not, or march with your own local American Legion in the holiday parade. Casualty list: a good percentage of one Tactics group sunk and not without Trace ... in fact the tracing or tracking down was not in the least, as Sherlock Holmes would put it, "elementary" ... is was very, very systematic ... painstaking and "painsgiving," too--what maneuvering, man, oh man! The Target Ship must have been doing a Conga ... and still caught one amidships ... Note to signalman strikers...
...Albin saw the dangers. An advocate of moderation in all things, he made up his mind that now there was no room for moderation. When he raised his bushy brows to address the Riksdag last week no trace of the middle-of-the-road Social Democrat was left. Sweden would fight to the last man if attacked, said he. "Every order . . . that defense is to cease will be false...
Relentless foe of the monolithic state, ever suspicious of a concentration of power, Jefferson was on a constant crusade for the people and against ignorance. Said he: "In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover. . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree. . . . Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they...
Free of the sound & fury which has recently characterized debate in this country about the British Empire, and free too of any trace of jealousy and suspicion which all too often marks Anglo-American relations, the statement is contained in the Dec. 12 issue of the London Economist, noted for its sense-making analyses of political-economic affairs...
Home from the war, Holmes went to spend an evening with Emerson. The young soldier still had a trace of the old longing to be a philosopher. "It had burned in his mind as an undergraduate, and he felt himself seduced again by the wonderful talk. But when at the end he closed the door he knew that ... he wanted to put his teeth into something hard and exact; to work like anyone else for a living. Law might be worthy of the interest of an intelligent man, for one could look out of the window of law when...