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...developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel Hoerner died, doctors knew that an epidemic of trichinosis had befallen the huge household. The sausages taken from their North Dakota home contained embryos of the lint-like worms, one-eighth of an inch long, which cause this widespread (17,000,-ooo estimated U. S. victims), occasionally painful and exhausting, although seldom fatal disease. Cooking the sausages well would kill...
...toast in his honor by King George. "It is sad to recall," said Leopold III, raising his glass, "that I should, in 1935, have paid to His Majesty King George V and to your dear mother the visit which I pay to Your Majesty today. The sorrows that have befallen your family and mine, grievous as they are, have forged a further link of mutual sympathy and friendship between our royal houses and, through them, between our two peoples...
...Learn from the destiny which has befallen the German Jews! Preserve your independence by the creation of an appropriate institution which you will need in the hour of oppression. Do not trust that this hour will never come, but keep the international community of all Jews sacred and holy...
...father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity which has befallen Europe in the death of one of France's greatest foreign ministers. Even your own excellent paper seems hardly to have noticed that a great democratic leader has also died. Surely this must mean more to the immediate future of Europe than the almost unavoidable assassination...
...years I have been present at the opening of annual and general conferences. . . . I regret circumstances beyond my control have prevented my attendance at this . . . session. . . . May I say to my brethren and sisters . . . concerning the things which have befallen me that Paul wrote to Timothy from Rome: 'Notwithstanding, the Lord stood with me and strengthened me . . . and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion...