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...Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...
...workman refuses to belong to the cellule "he is quietly told to get out, and if he refuses to get out then things begin to happen to him. His tools disappear or break in his hands or the machine on which he is working blows up, or things fall on him, and in a general way his life is made unbearable. Consequently the men join the cellules for the sake of peace and quietness and to be allowed to get on with their jobs and draw their wages. And when the people above declare a strike- contrary perhaps...
...society, growing out of the necessities of life in primitive and modern communities. This theory brings him into opposition with such writers as Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that he has examined the evidence in detail and has come to the conclusion that complete freedom in sexual relations has never existed even "among a single people," makes a strong case for his side...
...instant an embolus seats itself like a valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...
...girl was acquitted. Arrested girls were taken to the ring's lawyer, a disbarred attorney named Karp, coached in an alibi. Eight out of ten appeared in court, were freed on their stories. Those who seemed sure to be convicted were told to "take it on the lam" (disappear temporarily) and their bail was forfeited. "We have identified," cried Prosecutor Dewey, "some 170-odd arrests for prostitution in 1935 in which the girls worked for this combination. Not one of these girls ever went to jail...