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...similar service was rendered by Mr. Gandhi during the savage Zulu Rebellion in Natal and he accepted from King George the highly coveted Kaiser-i-Hind medal, sent it back in 1920 when he began to preach "Civil Disobedience...
...have known so much about dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody attributes tenacity, as a moral quality, to the breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume...
...nothing will happen to the mouse. But, wrote Dr. Brodie in Science last week, if the child is susceptible to infantile paralysis, after two days "the clinical picture in the mouse is quite acute. It begins with irritability, jumpiness, ruffled hair and goes on to ataxia [dragging] of the hind legs, humped back, convulsions, circular movements, twisting of the head and sometimes ptosis [drooping] of the eyelids. The animals usually die within a few hours after the onset of the symptoms...
...students started up the slope toward the Greek Theater. As the honor guests swung in behind, a golden concrete "C," high above on a hillside, glistened in the sun. President Sproul led the way with Governor Frank Finley Merriam, ex-officio chairman of the Board of Regents. Be hind, with her speech in a Department of Labor "penalty" envelope, trudged Secretary Perkins, escorted by California's best-loved professor, Vice President and Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president who led the National Guard to break...
...text the anti-Administration outpourings of Rev. Charles Coughlin and Senator Long, Hugh Johnson cried: "You can laugh at Father Coughlin-you can snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with Talleyrand, it is no exaggeration to say that, through...