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What happened to the soldier's soul after his heart stopped? What happened when the doctor forced it to start beating again? Did the soul, when the heart stopped, depart on its long journey, or does the soul "stay around" for awhile after what we call "death," to make sure that the body has really died and is no longer a fit habitation for a living soul...
...career," remarks Son Anthony, in a classic understatement, "offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence." Post Office Hobbledehoy. For seven years, Trollope was the Post Office's black sheep. Moneylenders trailed him as they had trailed his mother; twice he was led off to jail for debt (but not locked...
General Cho had left his own epitaph: "Twenty-second day, sixth month, 20th year of Showa era. I depart without regret, fear, shame or obligation. Age on departure 51 years...
...doings at home, to help in psychological warfare by radio and by the preparation of leaflets to be dropped over enemy lines or into occupied territories. In the opinion of most observers, it had done a fairly effective job in a sphere which neither the Army nor the State Depart ment was set up to handle...
...people of Chungking were shocked even by the customs of the modernized coastal Chinese who retreated to the province six years ago. The U.S. soldiers depart even further than the coastal Chinese from Chungking social conventions. Chungking people believe that woman's place is in the home, that no nice girl goes out publicly with a man, that only a trull plays and drinks with a man, that marriages are arranged by parents and no nonsense...