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...betrayed the hospitality and protection given to you [by Britain] with the grossest treachery . . ." said Lord Goddard, hard-voiced, "your object being to strengthen that creed which then was known to be inimical to all freedom-loving countries . . . You have imperiled the right of asylum which this country has hitherto extended. Dare we now give shelter to political refugees who may be followers of this pernicious creed?-. . . You might have imperiled the good relations between this country and the great American republic with whom His Majesty is allied . . . It is not so much for punishment that I impose [the penalty...
...police in West Africa with unenthused satisfaction in his work. His literary wife has disliked every year of it. When it is finally arranged for her to travel for a rest, the major falls in love with a young war widow who becomes helplessly dependent on him. He had hitherto been only a perfunctory Catholic and thus avoids the problem of his sin until the issue is forced by the return of his wife and the anticipation of their customary joint confession. He manages, however, to confess to the priest alone, but will not repent. The major is torn between...
According to the Association of Medical Schools, the deficit problems is rapidly getting to the point where it threatens the standard of medical education that the Association has hitherto imposed on its member schools. Many of the schools will just have to stop buying new equipment or cut some of their instruction staff. Yet, the Association feels that, if anything, more money should be expended on the faculties in order to induce better doctors to give their full time to teaching...
Feats like this, hitherto impossible for slow, short-lived man, are what make scientists wildly excited about the new computers. Virtually every branch of science is surrounded by beetling walls of unscalable figures. The hazy paths of electrons whirling around a nucleus, the speeding flow of air over an airplane's wing, the structure and reactions of complex chemical molecules-all these involve continents and oceans of figures, figures, figures. Sometimes a simple answer (a small number, or even a yes or a no) would cost a lifetime or 100 lifetimes of human calculation...
...Castile died from a blow on the head at Palencia in 1217, or from natural causes. Enrique's skull, found in the tomb, confirmed the theory of violent death; it also showed what archeologists interpreted as advanced techniques of trepanation, demonstrating a medieval knowledge of surgery hitherto unsuspected...