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...Russia the Soviet secret service has had a long and fascinating history, increasing in respectability with the years. Members of the dread Tsarist Okhrana were remarkably successful in insinuating themselves into the Cheka of Lenin which conducted the original so-called "Red Terror." So odious did the Cheka become that it was finally supposed to have been purged of its baser elements and was renamed the Ogpu. Under the late great Felix Dzerzhinsky, an extremely able and somewhat sadistic Pole, the Ogpu became internationally odious but in Russia it saved the Bolshevik Dictatorship from being overthrown by popular and democratic...
...year-old girl, got up in the House to voice the fears & thoughts of parents: "I am calling upon the Public Health Service to call off the jamboree. I, for one, can't sit here silently and see thousands of boys come here and maybe scatter this dread disease all over the world...
...inconclusive assaults, kept brushing aside his extended left, boring in, plodding on, piling up points. As an exhibition of good boxing, the match lacked intrinsic excitement. But the crowd was on its toes right up to the final bell on the chance that Baer might somehow suddenly land the dread blow which would cut down the striving underdog. But Max Baer, having frittered away his early chances, never did. When the referee and judges compared scorecards, consensus was that Baer had taken six rounds, Braddock eight...
Comprising a cloistered collection of crotchety individualists who mortally dread insecurity, the normal U. S. campus resembles an inactive volcano. Beneath its outward calm there rumble, seethe and surge perpetual gratings of opinion, ripples of backbiting and intrigue, tides of hate and fear. With fortunate exceptions the instructor fears and resents the department head, who fears and resents the dean, who fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance...
Rheumatic Fever & Spinach. Dr. James Fleece Rinehart of San Francisco found new ailments which attack human beings unless they load themselves with spinach and other sources of Vitamin C. One of the diseases is rheumatic fever, dread disease which sometimes leaves the hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also...