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Under the Lorry. On the road retreating from Magwe, Belden listened to General Bruce Scott speaking pensively between sips of soup: "What is war? Who is the enemy? What is he? We can only grasp at the shape of the antagonist before us, and then when you think you've solved the mystery of his personality, he vanishes into thin air like a jinni. . . . What makes me cross is that by evening he knows exactly where we are, but we don't know where he is 'or what...
...nnhildes. She had made her last exit from that stage mounted on a bay charger at the close of Wagner's Götterdämmerung on March 22, 1941. Since then Marjorie Lawrence had been fighting a battle few thought she could win. Her antagonist: infantile paralysis...
...turn to win the next time. "Make it look good, like a professional bout," he cautioned, as his antagonist's knees began to collapse almost without resistance...
...cost that would come to $63,800,000 a pound. In an early experiment one and one-half millionth of a gram was obtained from 40,000 Ib. of egg yolks. A primitive protein related to urea, biotin occurs in all living cells and is best known as the antagonist of another protein called avidin, which occurs in raw egg white. One of the biggest problems in biochemistry today is the dynamic balance between these two vital substances...
...look forward with confidence and hope to the time when we ourselves shall be as well armed as our antagonist, and beyond that, if need be, I look to the time when the arsenals, training grounds and science of the New World and the Empire will give us that material superiority which, added to the loyalty of constant hearts, will surely bring victory and deliverance to mankind...