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...modern world was about to begin its second quest of planned peace, a police lieutenant saw that rain was coming, felt the first drops, and said: "Boy, oh boy, this is it." Soon police horses glistened in the rain. The flags, half-staffed for Franklin Roosevelt, nodded damply downward. From the pavements, warmed by the recent sun, wisps of steam rose and vanished...
Anthony Eden, usually no great orator, outdid himself and brought his audience up cheering. When he spoke of peace machinery, he rotated his fists; when he spoke of war, he thrust them rigidly downward. His best (and final) lines: "In the last six terrible years, unnumbered men have died to give humanity another chance...
Once again the civilian enrollment of the College has veered downward, as the figures released last night by Dean Hanford indicated that only 741 civilian undergraduates have registered for the spring term, as against the figure of 863 for last term, and a peacetime average...
...part of the charge may be produced "at the birth of the snow crystals in the upper atmosphere," when "tiny water droplets'' combine to form a flake with a smaller total surface than that of the separate drops and hence a higher potential. As the flakes swirl downward they presumably pick up more electrons...
...corporations are still doing fine. But the profit line chalked out for them by taxes, price ceilings and increased production costs has taken a downward dip for many. The National City Bank's profit figures on 300 leading corporations, for the first nine months of 1944, showed: a 6% increase in profits, after taxes, over the similar 1943 period, with combined sales up 11%. Of the 300 companies, 140 reported higher profits this year, while 160 were down...