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...right side of Venus, he must start before March 6, and although the time may be profitably passed charging admission to his hangar, the Vernean scientist is disturbed by the obstinate weather. When pundits inform Condit that the friction of the air will melt the rocket and likewise the already ardent professor within, he smiles knowingly. When visitors asked him how he would return, it is reported that he answered, "Why cross bridges?" speaking, one presumes, metaphorically. The inhabitants of Miami, however, although they like Mr. Condit, fear he will come back to earth too speedily...
...Words of apology fail me for having sunk His Majesty's submarine N. 6. My subordinates are killed by my fault, but it is with pride that I inform you that the crew to a man have discharged their duties as sailors and with the utmost coolness until their dying moments...
...HONOR TO INFORM YOU WITH PLEASURE THAT TODAY AT TWELVE TWENTY SIX HE STARTED ON HIS DIRECT FLIGHT TO MEXICO...
...eggs fried with red and green peppers, coarse bread, and steaming coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...
...group of bankers that their loans to foreign countries might well complicate this country's foreign relations a) by being used for military or monopolistic ends or b) by interfering with the borrowing nations' public debts to the U. S. The bankers at that time agreed to inform the State Department of projected loans in advance, so that the State Department might or might not express objections. The bankers acted voluntarily. There was no compulsion upon them nor did the State Department pretend to any legal right in its previewing of their private doings...