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...Excerpt:-"My Lords you are impatient for the sacrifice! The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose...
...hands, his neck is broken. In both cases the spinal cord is injured. If you lift his head to give him a drink of water or if you fold him up to carry him, you inevitably grind the injured spinal cord between parts of the broken vertebrae and destroy any useful remnant of the cord which may have escaped injury in the original accident...
Harvard students longing for a real fire and a chance to rescue people finally had their chance Saturday morning when a blaze gutted the third floor of a rooming house at 451/2 Mt. Auburn Street and threatened for a time to destroy the building...
...liberal group on the bench, there is little hope that the "due process brigade" will follow suit. It would be an unforgiveable mistake on the part of President Roosevelt to meet this in any but an orderly way. Packing the court would establish a precedent that would permanently destroy the usefulness of the tribunal. Two alternatives are left; wait for the more conservative members to die, or amend the Constitution. If the President is willing to wait several years, the former method would be a smooth modus operandi. The more democratic and efficient method, however, is that of admendment...
...socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm Troops in Kiel then and there resolved to destroy a Club whose motto did not seem to be "Heil Hitler!" A message from Kiel to Doom bleakly informed Commodore Wilhelm Hohenzollern that his Kaiserlicher Club had just been dissolved, its handsome premises turned over to officers of the Nazi Navy...