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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark's tall Christian X, chastened by two months of Nazi occupation, received Danish bigwigs on Constitution Day, adjured them to stand fast through days of duress...
...goes everywhere." Following the usual Buchmanite technique, MRA headquarters issued a list of current MRA "endorsers."-Among them: President Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, Secretary of War Woodring, Secretary of the Navy Edison, Speaker Bankhead, David Dubinsky (International Ladies Garment Workers), Dan J. Tobin (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), Paul E. X...
Many were the snap answers: he is a great man, he is a menace, he is a phony. But no one knew; to his closest intimates he remained an upper-case X in an equation of variables. This in spite of the fact that the U. S. has a vast, sure talent for knowing its leaders...
...pyramid, sense impressions are connected by theorems and syntheses which cover more & more phenomena, so that the basic statements need be fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found to be energy of molecular motion; and when light, X-rays, gamma rays, wireless waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation were all disclosed as electromagnetic vibrations. At the pyramid's apex there should be a master synthesis embracing all physical phenomena...
Year ago, the doctors discovered that a young nurse in the hospital was a carrier. Sulfanilamide and other standard drugs did no good; they tried giving her iodophthalein, a dye used to show up the gall bladder in X-ray pictures. Next day the germs had vanished. They have not been heard from since...