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Great Expectations. Most envious among the visitors to Constantinople were the Moslems, who for eight centuries drew a net of conquest closer & closer about the capital. When Mohamed II finally succeeded in crashing Constantinople's triple walls (in 1453), the townspeople hopefully streamed for their proudest monument, the Church of Saint Sophia, assured by a prophet that the Moslems would never conquer it. "In the space of an hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests...
...Conference, called by Columbia Daily Spectator editors "solely in the interests of free dissemination of information," drew a bumper crop from Massachusetts to Washington...
...conference drew to a weary close, one agreement was reached that lighted up the new situation: Secretary Marshall and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Bidault concluded an agreement giving France coal from British and U.S. occupation zones of Germany. This was further evidence that the U.S. really meant to help build and guarantee a stable Europe (see below). Such moves as the French coal pact would speak more persuasively to the Russians than all the voices in all the conference rooms...
They made K. lie down against a rock. Then one of them drew out "a long, thin, double-edged butcher's knife, held it up and tested the cutting edge in the moonlight. . . . With a flicker as of a light going up, the casements of a window [in the house] suddenly flew open; a human figure, faint and insubstantial, at that distance and at that height, leaned abruptly far forward and stretched both arms still farther. Who was it? A friend? A good man? Someone who sympathized? Someone who wanted to help? . . . Was help at hand? . . . Where...
Only about 150 of the original 500 tickets are left after three days of purchasing by Yardlings, as the lure of a prize dance with a pretty model drew many to the ticket desk to enter next week's lottery...