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...soon rivaled Socialist Morrison with a ringing radio declaration: "Machine tools and instruments of production are now more valuable than gold. . . . I want another [sixth] column in Britain-a National Service Column resolved to win, and to win quickly! . . . It will deal drastically with anyone who seeks to hinder us in our crusade...
Students will not have to make special attachments to the heating pipes to receive with ordinary sets. However, a ground on the pipes may hinder reception, whereas an aerial attachment to the radiators might improve the reception considerably...
...that he had inherited his father's passionate interest in "biology," he was taken to Uyeno Park Zoo one day last autumn. There he observed that the hippopotamus, unlike his toy hippo at home, was supplied with a tail; also (there being no one with the audacity to hinder his demi-divine will) he fed the sheep to satiety on small pieces of paper...
...coast states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler. For America and the other neutrals, if they were not convinced by the Russo-German alliance last August or the joint Polish seizure of September, the Finnish invasion will remove any hesitation they had in placing Russia and Germany in the same category...
...breaking up through the war a number of artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood, the effect of a war would be to destroy half of London, including its slums, and scatter its population over the country, it might not be a wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy...