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Book on a Table. But before the doctor came, Abe Feller jumped to his feet. "It's no use," he cried. "The doctors can't help me!" He ran to the rear of the apartment. Mrs. Feller clung to him-first to his head, then to one arm, finally to one leg. While she struggled, Feller threw open a window. She screamed and cried, "Don't jump!" He broke away, and within seconds his body lay twelve stories below in an open cellarway...
...expected, the Democrats won handily in Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, and clung to their capitols in Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island and West Virginia...
...spite of great progress on material levels, Davidson has clung to a brand of education that is almost classical in nature, a brand of education that shuns all trade school ideas and is primarily concerned with the development of a thinking, self-sufficient individual...
...Munich one morning last week, a little boy named Hans Koegel appeared at the doorway of the Schule in der Blu-menstrasse and nervously entered. Like other children arriving for the first day of school, he clung tightly to his mother, and it was not for several awkward moments that he finally relaxed enough to smile tentatively at his classmates. But even after he did so, his mother and teacher continued to watch him closely...
Diarist Strong belonged to a species of American now almost extinct. He was one of those solid, versatile squires who did their public duty even while suspecting public life, and clung fiercely to a creed of almost fanatical independence. He liked men who worked for themselves, and distrusted both Southern slave owner and Northern capitalist; neither, it seemed to him, could quite be a gentleman. He enjoyed comfort but disdained luxury, prided himself on literary cultivation yet squinted uneasily at intellectuals. He lived, or aspired to live, by the tone and manners of the Founding Fathers...