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Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch...
...should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand the ravages of excess. Fancy and phoney foreign liquors, and bottled in bond American whiskeys, are to be left to the effete, in the reform which I envisage, while the great mass of the drinkers of the country, deserting their bathtubs, are to "buy American," and patronize...
...nation on a new road. There have been mistakes made, and there will be others, but by following the methods of a scientist, the President has pledged himself to take these mistakes into account, select the wheat from the chaff, and modify his policy to meet and withstand the conditions that caused them...
...love and its attendant foibles Poet Gogarty's lighter vein is apt: Only the Lion and the Cock, As Galen says, withstand Love's shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not have me roar, or crow. When he can manage to subdue his wit something simpler and better emerges: I gaze and gaze when I behold The meadows springing green and gold. I gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring...
Contrary to general expectation, the Harvard Jayvee football team completely swamped the Yale Junior Varsity by the overwhelming score of 31-0 yesterday at Soldiers Field. Many spectacular runs and plays featured Harvard's attack which the Bulldogs were totally incompetent to withstand. Victory began to form when Stanley X. Hausen '34 caught a wild pass from Paul deB. deGive '34 with one hand for the first score. Braman Gibbs '36 kicked the point. In the third period the slaughter began again when Gibbs swept right end for the second touchdown, but the real smash came in the fourth period...