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...struggle was protracted and fierce. Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momentarily, but only for the moment, died away. The miracle of deliverance achieved by the valor and perseverance, perfect discipline, faultless service, skill and unconquerable vitality is a manifesto...
...Scholz uttered a protest once before, when the Traveler, in a syndicated story by Washington Columnist Harlan Miller, hinted that he had tried in vain to crash Washington society. The Traveler apologized. Last week it looked as if Consul Scholz had protested once too often...
Seven years of crisis-shouting had blunted the national sensibilities. Over & over again Franklin Roosevelt had cried "Crisis!" Now there was a crisis indeed; the U. S. did not have to be told so. Shocked awake by the crash of events, the U. S. wanted now not merely vast appropriations, advisory councils, coordinators, movement. The U. S. wanted the President to be its leader: it did not want to consider him any longer as the head of the Democratic Party, but as the head of a united nation...
...secrets of German magnetic mines and how to beat them. Dr. Lindemann, whose friends call him "Prof," was a pioneer advocate of the present London balloon barrage, years ago vainly urged the Air Ministry to build fleets of robot planes which would be sent up by radio control to crash head-on into enemy bombers...
...Mullings had parked his car in front of a grocery store on the main street of Imperial, Calif. Mrs. Mullings and the two children were crossing the sidewalk when Mullings, startled by an unfamiliar noise, looked up, saw the wall of the store crack, disintegrate, crash on the heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow...