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...Sullivan estimated loosely that some 75,000,000 McGuffey's were at one time or another be tween 1835 and 1900 in the hands of some 20,000,000 U. S. school children. But just when and just where, "like the last passenger pigeon," was a McGuffey's last seen and used...
...immediately come face to face with situations and circumstances which rarely subject the souls of men to more trying ordeals than those which assail the honest surgeon. Every day by his counsel, by a mere word, or even by a gesture, he may stand as an arbiter be tween the life or death of one of his fellows. . . . Lives of infants, who are on the threshold of life and in whom are centred the hopes and happiness of their parents, of women, young women, especially, who appeal most touchingly to our sensibilities, our affections...
...order that I might have a clear conception of my task in Syria, it was essential that the boundaries should be settled with neighboring territories. In our discussion we have agreed to hasten the delimitation of frontiers be tween Syria on the one hand and the British mandated territories of Palestine and Irak on the other. I also hope to go to Angora at an early date to settle the Syrian boundaries with Turkey. . . . My policy is to work with the League of Nations and to bring to Syria full independence at the soonest possible moment...
...permitted myself to recall a proverb which I begged them not to mention lest it should create a slight coolness be- tween the Chancellor of the Exchequer and myself. But, as I have mentioned it to him today, I may perhaps repeat it to the House. I said to those with whom I talked: 'We have an English proverb: Why bark yourself when you keep...
...hardly breathe for the overpowering odors of opopanax and ambergris. . . . "And what has happened to the waltz has happened to all popular music. It was once innocent, now provocative; once pellucid, now richly clotted; once elegant, now it delights in being barbarous. ... It is the difference be tween life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible...