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...Another great President under the strain of war found it more humane to revoke the death sentence of a simple sentry who had fallen asleep on his post. Thus he taught the lesson that death itself could never have taught...
Perhaps you have seen his paintings. It might be his poetry that you recall having read or having had read to you, as is his wont. And then again, it might be that you have sat in on one of his lectures, half asleep from the maze of electronic symbols on the blackboard but at the same time awake to the rhythm of his accented voice, rich with its Russian overtones. No matter what the contact might have been, however, one thing is certain. If you have once met Pietr Matvayevich Bulieba you will not easily forget...
...recurrent shocks of prosperity have shaken New England out of a resigned preoccupation with its past. From the Penobscot to the Housatonic, shipyards clang. Spindles are singing again in textile mills, turning out Army uniforms. Pretty, white-spired New England villages, asleep in their history, have stirred themselves to produce millions of small war parts. Connecticut, aswarm with producers of firearms, propellers and engines, rightfully calls herself the No. 1 Arsenal in the Arsenal of Democracy. Small, bellicose Vermont was the first state to declare war on the Axis-nine weeks before Pearl Harbor, Vermont began paying soldier bonuses because...
...cramped ten-hour train trip to London had made him stiff and weary. In the Mostyn Club, a Red Cross club for tired soldiers, Sergeant Wilbur Banik of Chicago picked a quiet room, flopped down, shoes and all, and fell fast asleep...
...well past midnight when we hit the fair city, and an hour later found us fast asleep in room 427 of the Mount Royal Hotel, amid the visions of sugar plums which traditionally dance nightly in the heads of those as pure of heart...