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...Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still...
Many alumni have criticised this provision severely because they feel that injustice is done to the ambitious schoolboy who desires to take some examinations in the fall in order to lighten the burden of his senior year at school or to enter college a year earlier. He may be prevented by illness from taking examinations in the spring, and he naturally in the past has made them up in the fall. No provision is made in the committee's announcement for such a case...
Then suddenly, across a dangerous ocean and a continent of war, his aging eyes hehld a great nation being born from the womb of a great theory ?Russia, the first-born of Communism. Like old Simeon he cried: "A light to lighten the Gentiles," but with more vitality than the Biblical patriarch he proceeded to write a book. He called it Communism and Christianity...
...this kind." The German Government legalized by special decree French and Belgian francs in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was said that this step was taken in order to embroil the French and Belgian francs in the debacle of the mark. Perhaps it was a sincere effort to lighten the task of German printing presses which, in the space of two weeks, printed 308 quadrillions of paper marks...
...Joint Congressional Committee on Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, pointed out that the first six Presidents to die averaged 79.6 years of age; the next ten 68.5 years; the last ten 61.8 years. He recommended that the President should have a staff of assistants to lighten his work...