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...When he refused, State Chairman James C. Quigley confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once made in the U. S. House defending Adolf Hitler...
Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
...quite so commendable, however, are the additions made in the process of translation. A great quantity of extraneous beings: gnomes, bat-like men out of the funny papers, rubber-skinned monsters, all thrust in their grimacing faces and do their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know...
...Andre Jager-Schmidt, historian of Paris, learning of the North Carolina story for the first time on hearing that the schoolmaster's grave was to be reopened, delved into the records which, by a queer thrust of fate, happen to be housed in the very suite of Luxembourg Palace where Ney was held a prisoner during his court martial. He finds abundant evidence to show that Ney was really shot...
...General Mola were now in North Spain strategically just about where they had expected to be seven weeks ago. They had counted on commanding the Bay of Biscay from the first. When this region failed to join the Whites, the entire Mola-Franco plan for a quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo Caballero but also Generalissimo Francisco Franco had "just begun to fight"' -with approximately...