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...trench and cut their throats (Exodus 12:6). Fathers will mark the foreheads of their first-born sons with blood. The priests will hand around bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The slaughtered lambs will be cooked. Facing the summit of the mountain, the priests will chant with mounting fervor as the Samaritans squat or kneel on the ground, wearing wide cloth belts and holding wooden staves-"and thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord...
World War II brought many changes to Harvard: plastic trays replaced china in the dining halls, and hundreds of WAVES swamped Radcliffe; the Lampoon and the Advocate suspended publication, and the CRIMSON became the Service News; the College was in session all year, and the fervor of a nation at war pervaded the usually staid Cambridge scene. Just as World War II did things for Harvard, however, the University did things for World War II. 25,540 of the almost 100,000 living alumni and students served in the Allied forces and 455 of them never returned. In addition...
...When everybody is cautious," runs an old Wall Street adage, "the danger is about over." Last week there were signs that Wall Street investors were beginning to tread softly because of the worrisome speculative fervor of recent weeks. The New York Stock Exchange was so concerned at the rush for low-priced stocks that it asked members to discourage uninformed speculation. Brokers themselves started to boost house margin requirements on lists of volatile stocks. Others took to the newspapers with ads warning small stockholders not to try for quick killings. The effect was like a tonic on a market that...
...capital from a mere $20,000 to more than $2,500,000 today. But though their ventures have been almost uniformly successful, and bigger underwriters have learned how profitable it can be to sign up for one of their undertakings, the partners are a little apprehensive about the current fervor for low-priced glamour stocks. "These days," says Towbin, "anybody with a soldering iron and a piece of wire calls himself an electronics company. We find only one or maybe two really good companies a year...
...through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor of a bunch of auto buffs at an antique-car rally...