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...Roskilde, near Copenhagen, the Danish Army planned to black out the town for three nights during antiaircraft maneuvers. Businessmen grumbled. Pacifists took direct action, bought up all the fireworks in town, planned to set them off and march in torchlight parades to "lighten the dark nights...
...longer can the average city look to tomorrow's influx of population to lighten its responsibility for financial obligations incurred today. Nor is there much immediate prospect of skyrocketing assessed valuations to make tax levies appear smaller and debt burdens less onerous. . . . Very few municipalities with overall, net, tax-supported debts in excess of 15% of full taxable value escaped more or less serious default in the depression period. Very few whose overall debts fell below 10% became conspicuously involved in default...
...Norssex case breaks, Editor Carrough is in the Orient. Junior is relieved because he imagines his father, if he had been in Athena, would have stuck his neck out to defend his old friend. But when Editor Carrough returns, and is asked to use his personal influence to lighten old man Norssex' stiff sentence, he keeps his neck as firmly in his collar as any other Athena businessman...
...their capital as quickly as Mr. Ponzi's schemes of a decade or so ago. The Yardling, more fortunate than many others, managed to obtain the arrest of a well known professional pickpocket, who was making the most of the opportunity afforded by the crush around the goals to lighten the load in students' pockets...
...never without it. Frank was a personality, not a mere person, and in his seven years of service to Harvard University, he drew many close friends from those who saw him every day, every month. He would listen to their troubles without telling his own and lighten them with a smile and a joke. For Frank was an institution, and will be greatly missed by all those that knew...