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...timeless spiritual mission. Its immediate concern is the welfare of 331,500,000 followers. The layman has seen it bend to temporary expediency. But, as in its disagreement with Nazi Germany over the meaning of the 1933 Concordat, the Vatican has never been known to surrender rights it considers basic: to educate the youth, guide the family, govern the bishops...
Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "The Executive Committee of the Labor Party stands where it stood. Its defenses are down and its basic argument against affiliation-the Communist International -no longer exists, but the diehards stand manfully in their last ditch, desperately thinking up new reasons against the unity of the British working class...
...being chemically regenerated from its own oxide by the carbon monoxide present in the fuel gas. This discovery the Patent Office refused to believe until U.S. examiners went to the little brick laboratory in Newark, saw with their own eyes how lithium worked. Then they granted broad basic patents...
Prehensile or Tactile. Dr. Wolff's classification of hands is complex but is based primarily on the use of the hand as a sense organ or as a tool for action. She lists six major types, a dozen combinations. Examples of basic types...
They and Their Pals. To be amphibious-that was the basic Commando requirement. On Britain's coast, selected soldiers merged the lore of the Royal Navy with their own. They learned how to "get in and out of a small boat in all kinds of weather"; to swim, fully equipped, holding their firearms above water; to know about mortars, anti-tank rifles, high explosives. They also had to learn the double lesson of cooperation, individual initiative. Each man was encouraged "to do everything with a friend"-fall in beside him, handle the magazine of his Bren gun, scout with...