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...Pastor Martin Niemoller has been transferred from the dread Sachsenhausen concentration camp to some place of detention in Bavaria "where he is much better off," according to a message smuggled past the German censor last week. The heroic leader of Lutheran resistance to Hitler has been held by the Gestapo since...
Letter. The London Sunday Times published a letter which George Braikenridge of Bristol wrote to an American business firm: "The so-long-threatened invasion of this country has not yet been attempted, but we expect that in a few days it will be and there seems to be no dread here about it; the whole Nation seems confident. ..." Date of the letter: March...
...does the moral superiority which makes the people of the democracies think of themselves as the children of light, constantly result in doubt, skepticism, confusion, unsureness about objectives, diffusion of effort, widespread paralysis of the will to act, dread of defeat, while the children of totalitarian darkness constantly assert an immoral superiority which they translate into initiative, decision, unity of purpose, invincible organization, victory in diplomacy, espionage...
Last week doctors hailed an old conqueror of the dread staphylococcus germ. Considered by some scientists a virus, by others an enzyme, this germ-eater is called bacteriophage. Strains of bacteriophage are found in the human intestinal tract, in urine, pus, blood and sewage. About 25 years ago, bacteriophage was first isolated by a British scientist from a dead germ colony. The mysterious substance that killed the bacteria was able to pass through a fine filter and infect other colonies. Some doctors soon dreamed of it as a universal panacea. (Sinclair Lewis dramatized this hope in his novel Arrowsmith.) Compared...
...dread are the Willies...