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...Your Knees! Gravely the minister summoned his listeners to repentance. Freedom from want and fear is "cruel delusion." What mankind needs is penitence. Cried he: "After a year and ten months of the deadliest war this country has ever fought, we in the United States still have had no day of national humiliation before the Almighty. We have observed days of prayer, but this country has not yet been on its knees before God, confessing our faults and faithlessness...
...which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed it der schwarze Tod (the Black Death). Heavily armored, bristling with cannon, the Stormovik is deadliest at a perilous 80 ft. or lower...
...this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
From an ice-coated sun deck on a suburban Evanston, Ill. home, a half-paralyzed chemist last week slipped and fell to his death. Thus prosaically ended the life of Winford Lee Lewis, 64, who invented one of the deadliest weapons of chemical warfare: lewisite...
...minutes of the deadliest close-range fighting, the Boise had fired more than 1,000 rounds of five-and six-inch shells. Her sister ships had given her up for lost, but two hours later-her exploded magazine flooded, her bulkhead shored up, her shell holes stuffed with bedding-she ghosted into her regular station in column. "She was down by the head, but on an even keel...