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...accept the social inferiority to which he seemed to have been born. ... He was a liberal democrat in the sense that he claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest, and he was a socialist in his antagonism to personal, racial or national monopolization. . . . Wells was a copious and repetitive essayist upon public affairs and a still more copious writer of fiction. . . . The question whether he was to be considered a 'humorist' was discussed but never settled...
...does not give up all its dead. Depth charges usually sink a U-boat without chance of survivors reaching the surface. Before each grave was heaped, FBI men examined every body carefully, made copious notes, preserved all papers and identification marks. When the war is over there will be a pitiful sheaf of dog-tags, letters and personal papers to send German relatives...
...circulation, in six months Harper's rose to 50,000, before the Civil War went to 200,000, to become the first truly national U.S. magazine. (First Harper's Editor Henry J. Raymond in his spare time co-founded the New York Times.) Famed for its copious illustrations, it published the greatest contemporary English fiction (Dickens, Thackeray, et al.), plugged U.S. short stories, wrote about science, business, religion, politics, the West. Less literary than its later competitors (Century, Atlantic Monthly), it became a gold mine for historians...
Policy. The foreign policy of unarmed countries follows an exact pattern: assorted appeasements, big talk, empty threats, copious quotations from international law, appeals to reason. To this natural policy Welles has made a more practical addition: a search for friends. He is obsessed with the gigantic destiny of this Hemisphere; is sure in his soul that in this time of crisis, in a terrible century, when the seas shrink and the Hemisphere grows, the U.S. must find its own vast place in world affairs. Thus he has worked with furious suavity to grapple the 20 Latin American nations...
Four months later, when the case came up, Ed McNew was wheeled into court on a stretcher. Swallowing copious drafts of a colored liquid out of a medicine bottle, he wept, swore that the sight of Jones's camera had caused him to suffer a "mental explosion," won an acquittal. Outraged, the Knoxville Journal reprinted Photographer Jones's damning picture, with the scornful legend scrawled across it: "Not guilty...