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Last week's announcement won instant acclaim. One acclaimer was Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who, now only 31, three years ago startled his learned compatriots by declaring that nuclear protons were simply "holes" in the circumambient electronic field. "A major ad-ance!" cried Dr. Dirac...
...true that when you were investigating this man you found what appeared to be excitement and apparent confusion, but this is a rather common thing among people of that color, and it is quite possible they are a bit noisy in their acclaim of the one who brought about their deliverance from a life of shame, "in many cases." I say that such an influence in any community is a mighty good thing, and even though a bit noisy, it should be tolerated with a great degree of sympathy...
...likeness of a fair young woman dead now about two years. As the bride of Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring she lived barely a year, failed tt) see his triumphal emergence this spring as Premier of Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) and the wild, popular acclaim which marks him wherever he goes throughout the Fatherland today as the No. 2 Nazi...
...good part of the public works money is expected to come from "voluntary gifts for National Labor." Gifts will be of two kinds, Open and Secret. The names of Open Donors will be published for general acclaim, and they can have the very practical advantage of deducting their gift and an additional 25% from taxable income. Secret donors will have no publicity, but should they afterwards be accused of fraudulent tax returns they become immune to punishment and the gift may be deducted from the tax due. provided it is at least 50% of the unpaid...
...Uniform" is alive with genuine emotion and a well-defined and exacting plot structure. There are many touches of the theatre from the entrance of the orphan Manuela into the school to the closing scene in which Fraulein von Beruburg is chosen spontaneously as the natural leader by the acclaim of the children for the understanding and gentleness, while the sternold principal, who has insisted on stifling Prussian discipline, realizes her mistaken methods and totters down the whitewashed stairs on her walking stick...