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...actual prospect of marriage hit the Cavendishes hard. One of England's oldest and loftiest family trees swayed perceptibly...
...fighting took place on this war's loftiest battleground-10,000 ft. above sea level. Foot soldiers crawled up steep trails, through barbed, prickly grass. They used grenades, rifles, and mountain guns; they panted for breath and belabored pack animals. The advantage lay with the Japs, in whose rear good motor roads fed supplies and reinforcements. Behind the Chinese, communications were slow and tortuous...
Remote from both eastern and western U.S. seacoasts, sheltered by the loftiest of U.S. mountain ranges, Colorado Springs is one of the least bombable of U.S. cities. Its Fine Art Center, providently built six years ago with lavish backing by Art Patroness Alice Bemis Taylor, contains ample storage space for 2,000 paintings, is honeycombed with strong-walled concrete galleries, corridors and sub-basements. Last week, masterpieces from San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C. were making for that bombproof shelter at the rate...
This week Heinrich Himmler and his merry men learned that in Nantes, Occupied France, two rebels had pumped lead into the loftiest Nazi victim yet-General Holtz, Commandant of the whole Nantes region...
...throughout the world, the reborn Academy of Athens protests to the whole world of learning, of the arts, and of the spirit against the unjust and inhuman con- spiracy aimed at the freedom and the independence of the land which nourished the entire world through the beginnings of the loftiest humanity and was the first spiritual mother even of the ungrateful invader...