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Then began a lengthy arguments about the traffic to be paid on the bells. The customs men classified them as lump metal, on which there was a 45 per cent of value tax. Harvard claimed they were carillons, but, since they didn't come up to the U.S.carillon minimum of 23 bells, the tariff officials wouldn't admit it until shown the blueprints, which had empty spaces left for other bells...
...Sympathy . . . not pity but fellow-suffering. . . . The churches must lose their lives for Christ's sake and that of the brethren, become the hidden leaven of a selfless love in the lump of misery called mankind, go out and share the bitter things with not one timid shudder, or else be trodden under foot by men who have learned what life is all about...
...choice of 1) Option A, under which the face value of the bonds remains the same, but interest is slashed in half or more, 2) Option B, under which the value of the issues is cut from 20% to 50% and interest is reduced. But bondholders get a lump sum up to 17% of the bonds' value...
...once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad"). Stalin shivered almost imperceptibly, raised the sword to his lips and kissed the scabbard (see cut). President Roosevelt watched, deeply impressed. Others thought they saw "a little lump clumping in his throat." Almost inaudibly, Stalin thanked Churchill and the British...
...disappearing friends. Lieut. Colonel Beirne Lay Jr. described the sensations and sights of the Regensburg raid in last week's Saturday Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed...