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...values, as he has valued all his life, bare nature itself, and human living inter locked with nature. He despises, as he has for years, what he summarizes as "the modern spirit in Norway" (read "the world") and to the "little upstart heart" of the "modern" reader he addresses his book...
Queen Victoria's Government (Prime Minister: Lord Palmerston) was so incensed that, besides a hot note to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, it sent 8,000 picked troops to Canada, got its Navy ready. England raged and ranted about dismembering the upstart Republic. New York City feted Captain Wilkes and Northern hotheads boasted that the Union would give Britain some of the medicine it was about to give the South. Abraham Lincoln kept mum, for weeks. Eventually he had Secretary of State Seward discover that, while Captain Wilkes was within international law in arresting the Trent, he went beyond...
...because "you can't make love in a noisy place"; 2) because "improvision [sic] could never last. There isn't enough permanence to it. We have now," says he, "reached the double-entendre era." Rivals in the record business regard Eli Oberstein as a bumptious upstart. But to U. S. Records he is Mr. Big. Says he: "Everybody who is working with me loves...
Harvard swimming experienced a big let down in the year 1939 from the glories that were 1937 and 1938 when upstart Brown passed out a 38 to 37 set-back to the Ulenmen, Princeton carried off a 45 to 30 decision in Brokaw Pool, and Yale pinned another 45 to 30 defeat on the Crimson in Cambridge...
...still in its infancy. Ohio State, the nation's fifth largest university, has 13,231 students, is still growing. Of the biggest ten U. S. universities,- eight are State institutions. In the eyes of their severest critic, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, the upstart State universities are outstripping the great private universities, may eventually crowd them out of the picture. State universities believe that their growing preeminence is explained by a name Mr. Hutchins once scornfully called them-Service Stations...