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...Comptroller of the Royal Mint. Recalling that the silver content was decreased in 1920 from 925 parts in 1,000 to only 500 parts, Sir Robert shrugged: "The result is all those dirty coins you see today. The thin covering of fine silver wears off and leaves a dirty patch on the King's cheek. We have now developed a new alloy to make the coins wear the same color all through...
...vicissitudes of life have not changed the Vagabond's silent enjoyment in the little things in life. Starlight, cool freshly laundered sheets, a patch of cloud, an ember glowing in the night, a dish heaped high with spaghetti bologiese and the light on the faces of little children, give him a twinge of sweet pain as if he had reawakened some memory of the days when his immortal soul strayed through regions bathed in endless beauty on the journey from the outer spheres. The Vagabond is old in love and the world has taught him to keep...
Chancellor Hitler at first insisted that he would take no part in a church squabble, but the election of a non-Nazi candidate seemed a dangerous precedent to allow. Church diplomats tried to patch a truce between the German Christians and Bodelschwingherians by suggesting that Bishop von Bodelschwingh might retire after a few months in office in favor of Dr. Müller or a new neutral candidate, possibly Lutheran Bishop Schöffel of Hamburg. Suddenly Chancellor Hitler stepped in. Word was sent to Dr. Müller that the entire Nazi propaganda department, press and radio both, would...
Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...
...dropped Freshmen. A veritable fire-trap, a prey to the first strong wind that blows, the wooden edifice of Shepherd is in shameful contrast to a group of buildings which includes Dunster, Lowell, and Eliot Houses. The University has recognized these facts for years, yet has pursued only a patch-work policy, just effective enough to hush condemnation proceedings...