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...history's most monstrous ambiguities, a weasel which has drenched Palestine in strife for 20 years. This week neutral opinion had not yet crystallized, but widely His Majesty's Government was beginning to receive credit for honest efforts to simply cut with one harsh stroke the Palestine Knot...
There is nothing more discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance...
...wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological (scientific cave study) Society...
...question arises, "What is the function of such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility. The harder but wiser course is for the Council...
...just started down the bridle path in Flushing's Kissena Park when suddenly Nightingale reared, pawed the air, flopped down in the path. Scared June Ebdom kited back to the stables. "Frenchy" Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that he had no suspicion of Nightingale's condition, that the birth must have...