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...Allied troops had been standing by ready to go to Finland's aid-an announcement too late to be of any military use and obviously intended merely as a talking point for the Finnish peace commissioners, then in Moscow. It also did its bit to shift the onus for Allied delay on to Scandinavia. "Our help in men," he said, "depends on Finland's appeal. . . . Why have we not received this appeal? It is because the Governments of Norway and Sweden have taken the position that they will oppose the passage of Allied troops across their territory...
...Farm Bill. Comment: Still upon Congress lies the onus of not voting special taxes to meet special farm subsidies ($225,000,000 extra this year...
...Jews . . . have been freed from the onus of their own inferior elements. We have divested them of their morons. , . . They have had to learn that a Jew who is to survive must do what he does supremely well, whether in the realms of commerce, politics, science or scholarship. . . . Their involuntarily eugenic regime has been partly responsible for the astounding frequency with which they produce men of genius. . . . * "Why, then, have Jews been so constantly the objects of hatred on the part of their fellow men? ... If they are too clever for us and contrive to beat us in nearly every...
John is a powerful blocker. He captained the undefeated Freshman team last year. He brings with him a bevy of enthusiastic other young Sophomores who aren't way up on linesse but are on natural ability and enthusiasm. The onus is on John, and he looks like the guy who may be able to bear up under...
...streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred from one side of the road to the other, nothing very catastrophic ever takes place, unless Yard Cops or Cambridge police loose their heads and provoke the mob. This is just what happened Monday night, and this time the onus of the blame must go to the blue-coated minions of the officious Cambridge Police Force...