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Writing with stark frankness last week in Pravda (Truth), Dictator Stalin denied reports that a kulak, after the Government has seized his land, will be allowed to stay on it as a humble toiler on the Government's "collective farm." In the Dictator's mind such a policy smacks of weakness, sentimentality and therefore danger. "The kulak must be completely liquidated!," he wrote, using a popular but ambiguous Soviet verb also correctly used in the sentences, "Let the hangman now liquidate the condemned!" and "Let us, Comrade, endeavor to liquidate the static in our radio...
...pushed a great crowd to mass their protests against the Black Duck killings, to hear speakers compare the "Newport Massacre" with the slaying of Crispus Attucks on March 5, 1770, by British redcoats. Market-men in white aprons and straw hats heard William H. Mitchell, chairman, exclaim: "When stark wholesale murder stalks abroad under the guise of any law, in God's name repeal that...
...Robinson '31 was the only man participating in the tournament to win all four of his games. M. C. Stark '33 and Alexander Saron '31 each won three of their four games...
Summary of the fourth and final round: Stark defeated J. M. Miller (Y), 54 moves: E. B. Smullyan '32, defeated G. D. Knopf (Y), 29 moves: Robinson defeated J. H. Koch (P), 53 moves: Saron defeated D. A. Stern (P), 44 moves: O. E. Grace (Y), defeated R. K. Farnham (P), 45 moves; D. C. Forbes (P), defeated J. F. Durand (Y), 40 moves...
...Spain there once lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the marble effigy of an elderly commandant he had killed. Eerily enough the effigy accepted, appeared stark white at the riotous banquet hall. Awfully he warned his murderer to repent. When the swaggering Juan refused he was lapped accordingly into undying flames...