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However, Langdell hung on grimly, and by 1880 he had won approval for his methods. When, in 1882, a flood of donations began to pour in, enabling the school to undertake a program of large scale physical expansion, enrollments shot up, and Langdell had successfully launched the third "golden...
...year by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports for $9.11. Most of the gifts are tied to specific departments and projects, ranging from the Botanical Museum's Oakes Ames Fund for Orchidology to Stillman Infirmary's Free Bed Fund of the Class of 1868. They continue to pour in every year, both in gifts for capital and gifts for immediate use. Last year's capital gifts added up to nearly six million dollars, and the gifts for immediate use totalled better than two million. Some of the donations, such as certain library gifts, arrive yearly. Some are carefully...
Behind London's Fleet Street, off bombed-out Fetter Lane, stands a terraced architectural absurdity known as Geraldine House. It is the home of the world's first great tabloid-and still its biggest. Every weekday, 3,700,954 London Daily Mirrors pour from the presses of Geraldine House; every weekend they print 4,006,241 Sunday Pictorials. Each Mirror reflects the tabloid wizardry of Humpty-Dumptyish Harry Guy Bartholomew, who is as retiring as his paper is blatant...
...pilot, the increased rate of fire is of crucial importance. During the war, German pilots found that the very speed of their jet planes in effect reduced their firepower, since there was much less time to pour bursts into an enemy plane. This partly offset the jet's advantage over conventional fighters...
...accuse the Hitler system," cried Sachsenhausen's Dr. Heinz Baumkoetter. (He used to pour burning phosphorus on his patients, so that afterwards he could test the efficacy of burn salves.) "I accuse the system which made me-a harmless man by nature-into a criminal against humanity." Only dandified, cadaverous Willy Shubert, who had once earned a medal and a holiday in Italy for helping to kill 18,000 Russians in three months, refused to grovel. "I killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton...