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...find out anything whatever at Plotzensee Prison, even when correspondents arrived armed with official passes, proved almost impossible. Not until the enormous prison hearse drew up and two bodies were slid in, would anyone reconstruct what had been done in the cold, misty dawn...
...shocked so many Tories, was shocked. He and his friends were fired without warning. Frederick Howe was demoted. The Brain Trust was so completely taken by surprise that it had no rebuttal. And Dr. Tugwell, alas, was in Florida. Only next day did the full significance of the event dawn upon Washington...
...degenerating influences of the grind necessary to meet the final examinations and the recently-adopted comprehensive examinations are left unmentioned in the report. Not too much can be expected in the way of reform if the remark, made by a professor in the Law School recently that the "dawn of intelligence commences with the grade of 67" is typical of the attitude of the faculty...
...Bible to the Congo, but Leopold, the exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife for bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied with Bismarck in his talent for official propaganda, worked from dawn to dusk. To support the ego of this promoter-king, black men were mauled by leopards, ripped by thorns, drenched by tropical storms, lashed by callous or vicious agents, cheated at the scales when they brought in their rubber, and kept in perpetual slavery by a "rubber tax" which...
Meanwhile the three skiers, their murder party over, had fled. Finding the frontier barrier closed to their car in the dead of night, they crossed into Germany on foot. But in Europe a good car is too valuable to be abandoned. At dawn they thriftily sent for their car, got it back well before the murder was discovered...