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...fasting before Communion): You can gargle, or use mouthwash, or brush your teeth before Communion, and you do not need to worry about getting rid of every drop. . . . The fast can only be broken by something digestible, so if you chew your fingernails, there is no need to worry...
...last week the President of the U. S. told White House correspondents that he could think of only three ways to get rid of the nation's cotton mountain. He could burn it in a huge bonfire. He could float it into the Gulf of Mexico and sink it-no fantastic dream, for Brazil, weighted down by a similar mountain of coffee, tried both...
...then on, reported Ambassador Bowers, the Rebels' problem was not how to keep him in jail but how to keep him out. He was given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck...
...hear Dr. Conant is trying to get rid of the "C" men," he said in conclusion. "I would have been one of the first...
Meanwhile the French Government tried to get rid of some of the refugees elsewhere, but with little success. The U. S. offered to take just 352, the unfilled portion of the 1939 quota for Spanish immigrants. South American countries wanted only Basque farmers. Soviet Russia invited only a few big Loyalist leaders to make their homes there. Mexico was willing to receive some, provided they promised to keep out of politics...