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...points, his admiration carries him away. Oscar, he insists, was an "innately happy" man, who "never experienced a day's unhappiness until he was 40 years old" (1894). Even his last years in exile on the Continent were reasonably happy; the "martyrdom has been made to look much meaner than it really...
...Meaner the Better. Guam's fighting kennel has about 60 dogs, mostly Dobermans, some German shepherds, a few other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...
...into law last fall. In a single powerful speech-one of the greatest of the 77th Congress-he shattered farm-bloc opposition, saved the day for the Administration, earned Franklin Roosevelt's gratitude. Like many a good man before him, he now takes his reward in a harder, meaner assignment: a job that nobody but a Leon Henderson would want and that few men would accept...
...between purchasing power and available civilian goods -that threatens the U.S. cost of living. President Roosevelt has estimated this year's spread at $20,000,000,000. If the inflationary gap is to be closed, more bonds will have to be bought-voluntarily or otherwise-or still bigger, meaner and tougher tax bills lie ahead...
...cent. Girls reaped their success on the less straining subjects, mentally speaking. They averaged 73.1 per cent in English, while the boys struck a mean 59 per cent. The femallie 66 per cent in Ancient History was pretty mean too, but the mallic 55 per cent was meaner. Girls were slightly better at modern languages and boys at Latin...