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...himself, while the Nazis and Fascists gloated over the political passing of "Lord Eyelashes." But Churchill at least understood and mourned the lost opportunity. "There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender . . . Now he was gone. I watched the daylight creep slowly in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death...
...their apparatus to work watching a fluoroscope in a darkened room; it can see in light ten times too dim for human eyes. The faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight. This is important for doctors who examine patients by fluoroscope, and also important for the patients; doctors can now step down the power of X rays needed to get a good, clear picture...
...Faust sings of his despair. When he sees the coming of daylight, he closes the shutters. The pale sunbeams (supplied by a spot high up on Suhren's fly gallery) disappear. He threatens to kill himself, but-as Chorus Master Taussig on his stepladder gives the beat-women's voices offstage urge Faust to live...
...that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...
...made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror kept up against the Moroccans themselves. One wealthy local merchant was cornered in his garage and riddled with machine-gun fire. Another was killed as he drove to work in his green Ford Anglia. It was broad daylight and two Casablanca cops were standing nearby. Both denied seeing a thing...