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Said Jonker next day: "I entrust everything of value to my wife. That night we bound the diamond in a cloth and tied it around my wife's neck. I saw her to bed after carefully locking and barring all the windows and doors except the front door. There my two sons, myself and two friends kept guard with loaded revolvers until dawn. Then I handed the diamond for safekeeping to the manager of the Premier Diamond Mine." Hastily last week Prospector Jonker sold his precious find to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, board chairman of South Africa's Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: No. 4 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...will entrust," said Dr. Klein, "the job of keeping the German people physically fit, not to the so-called modern specialist, but to the old-fashioned family doctor. Let the young medical students take him for their model. The grand old general physician is what I have in mind as an ideal. A family confidant, the general doctor can size up a person as a whole. He has profound wisdom and knowledge of character, born of experience. . . . Specialists are useful occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grand Old Confidants | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...general mediocrity of the section men prohibits organization of the course on the model of French 6, in which fairly small classes meet under competent men three times a week, the obvious way to get rid of the ungainly professorial chorines participating in the revue is to entrust the course to one interested man, who would give at least two, perhaps three lectures a week throughout the year. Only in this way can the unity and coherence so necessary and so lacking now be gained. A comparable system gives excellent results in History 1 and English 33, both large survey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVUE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1/19/1934 | See Source »

...Blue Shirt Movement," crowed the General, quick to seize his advantage is perfectly legal and Constitutional We will carry on until, as I hope and believe Irish people entrust us with the Government of this country." He announced that he would sue the Government for false arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Up & Down O'Duffy | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...foes repose their confidence, and who has only the welfare of the country at heart. It is significant that in spite of our ever present yet ever-changing political and social diseases our national integrity has remained intact, and groups are willing to put aside lines of party and entrust their security to another for the sake of restoring our domestic prosperity and international prestige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUZZLED | 8/8/1933 | See Source »

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