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...There were also photostats of the signatures of certain Cabinet Ministers, a list of Cabinet Ministers and legislators marked for arrest at the outbreak of the rising, a file detailing meaus of seizing garages and busses belonging to the Paris street-bus system and municipal garbage trucks, to be converted into offensive weapons, plans to seize the supply of arms stored at the Mont Valérien fortress, and so forth...
Almost every year an outbreak of acute gastro-intestinal disturbance occurs among the student body...
...usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land...
Despite all these precautions--federal inspection, state supervision, local health department food inspection and every precaution taken by the University staff--an occasional outbreak of gastro-intestinal illness occurs...
...some excellent fiction and were taken by surprise when Roger Martin du Gard won the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, which usually amounts to around $40,000, announced fortnight ago. In France seven of the projected ten novels of the cycle have been published, carrying the story to the outbreak of the War. Although they centre around the wealthy Thibault family, they have little in common with the long, naturalistic family chronicles, of which Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is the prime example, that have become familiar to U. S. readers. Nor do they resemble Jules Remains' many-volume...