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...Grinnell was still fighting her fish, her hook fouled firmly in its skull. The captain of her boat, Wally Baker, made her turn over the rod to him. fearing the prolonged struggle would seriously injure her. At 5 a. m. next day he finally managed to gaff the brute. "At one time the fish had 1,600 ft. of line out. and fighting on the end of that, put up a terrific battle," said 200-lb. Mrs. Grinnell. "But I think that fish realized it had someone on the other end of the line...
...delight at owning the first rhinoceros ever seen in Europe soon turned to dismay, for the animal was a grunting, intractable terror. From motives now hidden by the centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope, provided its own denouement. Running amok, it battered through the hull, sank the ship...
...orgy of so called "scientific" realism. Professor White head shows how narrow and shortsighted is this interpretation of the nature of things; he demonstrates how only a colossal blindness could load one to tenore the fact that Civilization is essentially a humanly-created achievement of harmony amidst the brute Force of Nature; he tells the amazing story of how abstract ideas become men's ideals and how men's ideals become realized in the material forms of the world. In short be offers ideals to a world which has so tragically despaired of them...
...Brute-like American by name of Aurell dismissed his company's 1,000 employes who logically worked for the company's interests, yet obtained not a sen at their retirement from services...
...Capitalist and a Communist can usually agree on one point-the meaning of the word "revolution."-To both it conjures up a picture of physical violence, bloody streets, armed rioters, machine-gun rule. When a Socialist talks of "revolution," however, he does not mean a civil upheaval by brute force but rather a radical political change by orderly political methods. He thinks of seizing the brain, not the body, of an electorate...