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...been leveled to the ground . . . well-known names, rare in lore of various kinds, rich in experience, and ripe in years. In short, they are 'safe.' They could not be otherwise. . . . Surely the Department can't call any of them 'new blood'. . . . The blunt fact is . . . the Department hasn't budged an inch...
...blunt, forthright commander, may refuse to make recommendations; another, brought up in the tradition of bemedaling, may lean in the other direction...
Whether the special bills, schemes, promises and bustling in State capitals could solve the problem or not (the Army & Navy plainly thought not), the worrywart frenzy of state activity was a symptom of the nation's temper. In blunt words, voters had told their legislators-both state and national-that something must be done...
From British Columbia, where militant labor is strong, came dark, intense Harold Winch, who talks lustily of "Socialism Now." His blunt, fiery speeches have been widely used against the party, particularly in more conservative Ontario, where Socialism still makes most voters queasy...
...Kretschmer's blunt boo gains force from his experience with eleven castrated patients who had some prostatic tissue cut out besides: "Three of the patients are dead [after] five, eight and eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...