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They brought the Allied pursuit to a walk halfway between Rome and Florence, gave the battered Tenth and Fourteenth German Armies time to collect their wits. For the first time since the breakthrough below Rome, the Germans made counter attacks...
...tradition and rites, the Lacandons are of continuing interest to professional ethnologists, as well as to a continuing stream of travelers. ... In 1940, Corporal Gordon Gibler and I lived awhile with them to investigate some murders perpetrated on the group of half-breeds who seasonally enter their area to collect chicle, from which chewing gum is manufactured...
What will happen to the state insurance commissions which now collect $100,000,000 annually in fees from insurance companies? In his lone dissent, Justice Stone gave a gloomy answer: Said he: "The practical effect ... is to withdraw from the states, in large measure, the regulation of insurance and to confer it on the national government-which has ... no scheme of regulation." This will loose "a flood of litigation and legislation, state and national...
...escort character. If a blue jacket grew tipsy, Nuisance would grasp his sleeve, guide him understandingly to ward a haven. He regularly rode the interurban between the naval barracks at Simon's Town and the nearby port of Capetown. The railroad long ago gave up trying to collect his fare...
...United States who not only would want to read letters from their own sons and husbands but who would be hungry, as I was, for every bit of firsthand information they could get about the lives of our men overseas." From all over the U.S. she began to collect letters, soon had enough to fill three volumes...