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...scheme is so big that it takes two bills to hold it. One bill would give pensions ($12-$56 a month) to widows and children of all World War I veterans -not just those who died from wounds, but those who died in bed ten or 20 years afterward. For good measure, the bill would pension dead veterans' parents...
...index of a defender's ferocity. Madrid showed for 30 months that the Loyalists meant business. Warsaw was Poland's small core of guts. Oslo was the keyhole of Norway, and in it the key turned pretty easily. Paris fell without a whimper, and so, soon afterward, did France. The Germans threatened last week, 32 weeks after Yugoslavia was supposedly licked, to flatten Belgrade. Of all the capitals, Moscow looms as the most formidable...
...rabbits so they would lie still and not suffer; then he applied ice packs on their flanks directly over their Fallopian tubes. The rabbits' temperatures, normally about 103.5° F., dropped to from 92.5° to 64.4° F., but they all recovered easily from the chill.† Afterward, at various intervals, Shapiro removed the cold-fertilized ova from the rabbits, found some of them well along toward embryonic development. If he learns why & how mere cold can fertilize a mammalian egg, Shapiro may thereby explain how the meeting of spermatozoan and ovum forms the beginning of another human...
...cruiser dispatched a boarding party. But before the boarding party could get to the "Willmoto," the merchantman hauled down her call and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): "I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew." Immediately afterward there were two dull explosions aft, and lifeboats dropped...
...Desert explorer, quit as director of the American Museum of Natural History, explaining that since the museum now needs new financing more than dinosaur eggs, "the problems confronting the institution . . . are not those for which I am particularly fitted. . . ." Senator Alben William Berkley made a speech in Memphis, fainted afterward of "fatigue and excitement." W. C. Fields went on the wagon again, predicted no good would come...