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...orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk has her ... a dybbuk, a dybbuk. . . ." Curtain went down with every instrument in the orchestra simulating the horror of that dread word...
Three hours later the boy at the pithead heard the signal bell from the 141-ft. level, indicating that the three wanted to come up. Seconds later he heard the dread nine bell alarm, meaning DANGER, then a great rumbling roar. The walls of the shaft had buckled, the ground over nearly an acre had dropped several feet. Headed by Premier Angus MacDonald, most of Nova Scotia's Provincial officials rushed to the scene...
Although most of their work consisted of relaying river heights and similar messages, the Crimson radio men also sent out the much disputed order to grocers telling them to destroy all perishable stock which might possibly spread the dread typhus germ...
...Washington Star appeared the following: "Holmes, Oliver Wendell - In sad remembrance of the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, who passed to his reward one year ago today, March 6, 1935. Death is the gate to endless joy, but we dread to enter there. By his old messenger, Arthur A. Thomas...
What is holding up standardization is neither engineering technology nor corporate rivalry but the operators' and manufacturers' dread that the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Post Office Department may crack down with a decision that such co-operation would be "collusion against the public good...