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...really had something to say, had said it so clumsily that old Bolsheviks liked to boast that it had taken them a lifetime to understand the third volume of Das Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper-stage dialecticians. Comrade Stalin, densely narcotic in Russian, was practically lethal in English. There remained a library of dull, flimsy, semiliterate pamphlets (many of them translated from Russian via German). Moreover, their authors were constantly falling into doctrinal disfavor...
...Britain's airmen & equipment is higher and their numbers (according to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook last week) greater than ever before. But they are still woefully few compared to the Luftwaffe, which last week, by its comparative inaction, appeared to be gathering itself for its greatest lethal swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville...
Army sentries were rapidly posted at every conceivably vulnerable point with orders to challenge and open fire if the challengee should not stand perfectly still and cry, "Friend!" That these orders were in lethal earnest the War Office emphasized by announcing: "Those suffering from deafness are advised to avoid any point occupied by troops at which a sentry is known to be posted...
...committed against them since their vanquishing, of the reforms that have begun to take shape within the past few years. Possibly the most grievous crime has been the elimination of every possibility of stress: the strong tensions of hunting, free wandering, warfare have been long replaced by the lethal depressants of poverty, ostracism, boredom...
...Lethal Silver. It has long been known that silver is a deadly killer of one-celled organisms, and silver has been widely used as a germicide. It used to be thought, how ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last week Physicist Alexander Goetz of Caltech described experiments showing that under favorable circumstances just one silver atom will kill a cell - a feat roughly comparable to the killing of a dinosaur by a gnat...