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...grandfather's marble-top table. His students remembered how he used to lecture at Germany's famed Bauhaus, sitting hunched over, with his back to the class. His friends remembered him stumbling silently along a beach, staring at the convolutions of a sea shell in his fist...
With intervention in Argentina advocated at a forum here several weeks ago, and non-intervention in China propounded through mass meeting and petition this week, the State Department (assuming Harvard's influence on that body-politic) must be Byrning the candle at both ends to decide which fist to thrust where--and with what strength...
...days of Vichyfrance, many a loyal Frenchman clenched his fist against...
...advice to civilians: the hard back of your fist to any returning G.I. or officer who attempts wiping his feet on you as he has been accustomed to wipe his feet on Europeans (all of them) whom he considers "inferior...
...biggest jolt to German morale (which was only kept from going to pieces by the Nazis' iron fist) was delivered by the R.A.F. in three "city attacks" on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. There was "some indication . . . that Hitler thought that further attacks of similar weight might force Germany...