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...ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact and terrifying it makes other G-men stories seem like Mother Goose. Although the operations of Government agents provide initial tension, the real drama is the conflict of the criminal characters, worked out between each other and the stranded couple...
...subjects wanted war and with Spanish soldiers who were no more pacific, succeeded by relying on tact, patience and the knowledge of native ways acquired in two centuries of conquest. More impressive for its sweeping interpretations than for brilliant descriptions or picturesque details, The Spanish Main nevertheless contains several compact narratives that readers are likely to find unfamiliar. One of these deals with the desperate race to find the Inca Empire, whose fame had spread through South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca...
...does every autumn, the New York Academy of Medicine conducted a notable series of lectures and hospital demonstrations for the benefit of practicing physicians during the past fortnight. The subject this year was "Diseases of the Respiratory Tract," and it provided a compact postgraduate course in all the ailments which attack the respiratory tract from the nostrils to the base of the lungs...
...mass psychology from the time of the publication of "Newes from Virginia" in the early days of James-town to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Renascence" guarantees only an historical study useful to research students. But the great value of a collection and of all these compact little volumes of the Oxford series is in furnishing a handy reference to subject matter which the general reader wants to pursue once more...
...charge of this project was a compact, wirehaired, effective native Washingtonian just 40 whose name, after 16 years in the Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world...