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...seam thread...
...says Author Baptist) the women were to be dressed up "and left ashore at different points of the African coast as emissaries of trade and, presumably, of Christian missionary enterprise: women, it was reasonably argued, being less likely than men to be slain by savage tribes." From this historical thread Author Baptist has spun a highly colored yarn...
...twister struck the Empire Builder broadside just behind the tender. The baggage car coupling snapped like thread. The vacuum sucked coach after coach up from the track, lifted them like a giant's playthings through the air, flopped them down on their sides along the right-of-way. As the storm swirled away eastward, torrents of rain fell upon a wreck unique in U. S. railroading...
...friendship of two young officers, Sub-Lieutenant Westley of the British Navy, and Karl von Malheim, holding a similar post in the German navy, carries the story-thread from a night club in Kiel shortly before the war to the bridge of a British cruiser in the Battle of Jutland, and thence to the post-war office of a steel magnate. Inheriting their respective fathers' businesses, these two represent the curious and tense struggle between the cooperation of systematically-conducted navies and the individualistic philosophy of modern business. In the last act the two forces come to grips...
...There has been," he said last week, "a thread in the necklace which I have made: peacemaking." He won the Nobel Peace Prize...