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...Normally a speaker hears each syllable about a thousandth of a second after he has spoken it. By adjusting his apparatus to introduce delay, Dr. Fairbanks can lengthen this interval as much as he wants to. He can also make the sounds from the amplifier so loud that they drown out the sounds that reach the brain through the normal channels...
...from other poor people. It's me you're hurting. Where will I plant my cactuses? They yield good fruit. They keep me alive. This is robbery with violence." Then he burst into abuse: "May this road become a torrent with the first rains! May it drown all of you and bring a curse on your families, on Ente Sila and those it benefits...
...they drown...
...ready to tattoo its citizens with their blood types-underneath the armpits because arms might be blown off-in case radiation sickness called for quick transfusions. St. Louis's volunteer planners first thought of using the sewers for refuge until the city pointed out that a rainstorm would drown them all, suggested three old beer storage caves instead. Boston got RFC backing for its old plan to build a garage beneath the Boston Common, on the grounds that if would be a wonderful air raid shelter too. And New York's Mayor O'Dwyer wanted to spend...
...hler's first chance comes aboard a prison ship on Christmas Eve. In the hold, a Nazi begins to harangue the prisoners, but the anti-Nazis drown him out by singing Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht. Cheered by this little victory, the anti-Nazis feel that, with America ahead, they may yet know freedom...