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...himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient to increase exports to any appreciable degree in a world of incredible tariff walls, and even though...
...greater authenticity in that it contains little that is incredible and nothing that is, to us, inconceivable. In short, the work is a serious attempt, unmarred by riotous imaginings, to show, in rough outline, the endings of our present paths and the new and better ways which mankind may tread, provided only that mankind has the intelligence, the will, and the courage. As a book showing a possible transition from this immediate world to a conceivable Utopia, the work is no mean effort...
...there is one point on which Professor Morison must employ his most cautious tread. One of the loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...
...expansive granite steps of Widener Library have resounded for many years with the scholatic tread of many a Harvard celebrity. It sounds like a reversel of the evolutionary process to see them being used as for such a frankly social purpose as step-sitting. We think it quite a comedown from the high standard set by the activities of the Harvard Glee Club in step-singing...
...armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon in preparation for the next jump to Iceland, en route to Chicago. But there were 25 that took off from the home base...