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...heat and energy relation in the destruction of sewage matters has also been investigated; previous research has shown that the combustible gases evolved in the process of destruction may be burned as fuel to increase the temperature of the digesting organic material, and thereby hasten the digestion by stimulating the life activities of the organisms of decay...
Having read the stirring story by Clem splutter (Hugh J. Crossland) in TIME of Sept. 6, I hasten to offer myself as an inrolee in the Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society...
That is good Marxist ideology, but Harry Bridges is doing no more than any other militant labor leader to hasten the end of the employing classes in his day-to-day tactics. John L. Lewis is as much of a capitalist as Tom M. Girdler. Their immediate objectives may differ but neither could conceive of working for those objectives except within the framework of capitalism. But while Harry Bridges also works within a capitalistic framework, socialism to him is a desirable reality. Both Harry Bridges and John Lewis are working for Labor, both believe in political action by Labor...
...later wrote St. Matthew, whose Gospel contains a few more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone who might have known about the events had died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned...
...devising so that he could dissolve himself. Declaimed the author of A Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Attempter of Death: "I am an old man and sick, so I am going to hasten my end . . . disdaining to agonize between bed sheets." Amended the 74-year-old eccentric's long-time friend Luisa Bacarra: "He was speaking in rhetorical rather than literal terms...