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...Another blow was struck last week at Catholic independence in Italy. The State made ready to absorb 3,000 Catholic Mutual Aid Societies, which have furnished sickness and old-age insurance to peasants and workers. For 17 years Fascists let these peaceable, efficient, non-political societies alone. The State's new interest seemed centred in the organization's capital reserves of several hundred million lire...
...horns. Each ventricle is partly lined with feathery tissue called the choroid plexus. Function of the choroid plexus is to generate the fluid which bathes the outside of the brain and spinal cord. If the choroid plexus produces abnormal quantities of water, or if the brain fails to absorb the fluid which bathes it, hydrocephalus occurs...
Armchair travelers last week could go orchid hunting in South American jungles river hunting in Tibet, spend a winter in a jampacked Eskimo igloo, or the rest of the summer trying to absorb a fraction of the facts packed into the new Guide to Alaska, latest of the Federal Writers' Project series...
...lunch which she comes each day to prepare. At times Monk speaks as follows: "Can I devour you? Can I feed my life on yours, get all your life and richness into me, walk about with you inside me, breathe you into my lungs like harvest, absorb you, eat you, melt you, have you in my brain, my heart, my pulse, my blood forever . . ." and so on until the smell of burning food calls a halt...
...families stampeded in less than a year into collectives planned to absorb 4,000,000 in five years; uprisings spread in the villages, were ruthlessly suppressed; peasants, anticipating the loss of farm animals, slaughtered 25% of their cows, 33% of their sheep, 50% of their hogs...