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...After ten years of agony and travail, in which it was tested in every fibre of its being, the Socialist Party has emerged triumphant. We are here tonight to rebuild the organization dedicated to the international struggle of the workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Try Again | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...Irishmen who had tortured a prisoner by pouring hot rosin into his boots.) I accept in good part your careful travail and greatly commend your doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books : Books : Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...September advice is cheap and is only too likely to be valued accordingly. "You must not be too frequent patrons of the Cambridge-Boston subway" explains one advisor, inspired by a sudden revolation of truth, while a second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

...have been, we do not know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could so brood over adopted progeny as to persuade at least a second paternity. When we consider the indelible Danish bias of the original...

Author: By Joseph Auslander, | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 1/5/1923 | See Source »

...this industrial machine to get started without capital or credit? Lenin's advice, echoing Gambetta's famous saying, "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail", is excellent--the whole world needs it--but first of all it needs cash and credit. A lottery, as is now proposed, is a poor way to go about getting money, and refusal to recognize past obligations a poor way to go about getting credit. This is true even under a Government that pretends to be of the Workers, by the Workers and for the Workers. The New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 9/25/1922 | See Source »

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