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...triumphal week for college-bred fauna. Purdue won with sheep of all breeds, also with Poland China, Berkshire and Chester White hogs; the agricultural school at LaFayette, Ind. won with lambs; so did Illinois; Iowa State Agricultural School had the best pen of Tamworth barrows; Wisconsin had the best Yorkshire barrows, Tamworth hogs. Other winners...
Apes! . . . Cockroaches!" ended in a vote of 318 to 236. The Government had won by a triumphal majority of 82! Once again, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning was virtual Dictator of Germany, able to put through his policy of drastic fiscal retrenchment under a series of decrees signed by his patron, the man who made him, Old Paul von Hindenburg-until the Reichstag meets again...
...sincerity and earnestness were the keystone to artistic success, John Galsworthy would have built by now a triumphal arch. What he has made is a solid garden wall around a corner of Old England. The people who walk there are known to many as the Forsytes. This book of short stories Author Galsworthy calls "footnotes to the chronicles of the Forsyte family." As his reason for adding to the family saga he pleads that "it is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long...
Argentina's secret ballot was the first great reform fought for and won by Dr. Irigoyen a generation ago. It destroyed the monetary control of the "Lords of the Pampas" over elections, led directly to El Hombre's first triumphal election as President...
...problem often pondered by U. S. architects is that of making Manhattan's Battery Park truly "The Gateway to the Nation." Foremost designers and designs in the past: 1) Arthur Ware-A triumphal arch, axised on Broadway with an esplanade enclosed by a peristyle, flanked by two buildings, one dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft...