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...pole of western civilized thought and conduct - indeed, "together these principles reflect the polarity of life itself, of all phenome nal existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic and the static - without this universal dualism, meaning and reality, on the human plane at least, vanish into nothingness." Author Orton finds confirmation of the deep "political instinct of the English that out of the struggles of Whig and Tory two strong parties finally emerged frankly calling themselves Liberal and Conservative. Each has developed in mod ern times its central core of philosophy going well beyond matters...
...opposition New York Post did some quick checking of its own, reported on Page One: " 'Pearl Harbor Witness' DIDN'T Vanish, Mr. Hearst. A Navy officer's 'mysterious disappearance' from Bethesda [Md.] Naval Hospital . . . just isn't so. ... By the simple expedient of telephoning the hospital from New York, [the Post] established that the officer . . . happened to be out for a few hours yesterday, visiting his wife, on leave granted by the hospital [and is back now]. He didn't vanish, but the scare headlines will...
While the past year, and today's Sever Quadrangle exercises, may seem to indicate an approach to reconversion, one peacetime tradition will vanish after this 1945 Commencement: the canvas tent which shades Sever Quadrangle, a canvas which has shaded other Commencements for the past 30 to 40 years and which has been in Harvard's possession for so long that even the Maintenance Department Doesn't know where it originally came from, will be scrapped as a potential danger after this afternoon's ceremonies are over
Tired British Foreign Office officials, who sometimes wish the London Poles would "vanish," did not share the concern. Others reported authoritatively that the underground leaders were in Moscow, talking; this in itself would be an achievement...
Oilman Frank Phillips watched with dismay while federal taxes and Oklahoma state levies ate deeper & deeper into his $50,000-a-year salary as board chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Finally the salary (a minor item of the Phillips income, anyhow) seemed to vanish altogether...