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...sense, though very different from today's existentialists. ... [He] gave prudence and will their important and proper place. Modern existentialists have tried to reach conclusions without prudence and without will. They have ignored the spirituality behind the sublime cry of Job; they have remembered only the dung heap whereon Job lay. If we will see true existentialism, we must look for it in Saint Thomas...
American Legion Commander Milo J. Warner: "We [admonish] . . . textbook authors not to regard it as their province to use the schoolroom as a sounding board whereon the glories of the collectivist society shall be preached...
...Grant Park (named for Confederate Colonel L. P. Grant-no relation of Ulysses S. Grant-who designed the city's defense fortifications), the 50-foot by 150-foot Cyclorama, whereon is depicted the Battle of Atlanta in exact, stupendous detail...
...Chinese insufficiently appreciate conditions whereon victory is based-national unity, sacrifice and discipline. The Chinese have unity, but have not attained sufficient sacrifice," said the Premier...
...towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm...