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...stand the gas and get at me. I then shot the grenade in a room and asked the men to go in. This was a real success. . . ." Remarked Senator Bone: "It would appear that Paul's activities give a new meaning to the familiar old tune 'Onward, Christian Soldiers...
Normative Survey- For the first half of the investigation (Volume I), 107 infants were enlisted. They were observed from the age of four weeks onward at regular intervals of one lunar month. None of the babies was born prematurely and all were sound in mind and body. The parents, all U. S.-born and mostly of North European stock, were plain, solid, intelligent people, neither rich nor poor...
...band swung into the "Marseillaise" and the master of ceremonies bellowed: "Now we come to that great patriot of France!" Across the stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Onward he went with his good work. In 1929, the same year in which he married Florence Lincoln, wealthy divorced wife of William A. Rockefeller, he became, at the age of 36, president of his Institute. He launched still greater programs, teaching cotton mills to install accounting systems, to allot overhead costs, campaigning against night work for women and children. In May, 1933 Secretary Roper decorated his Institute with the annual Award of the American Trade Association Executives "for outstanding service to industry...
...offensive-defensive alliances between great powers, so vexing to pre-war Europe, has not arisen to trouble the waters. Now, apparently credible reports indicate that the former charming friendship between France and Russia is being restored. Amusingly enough, the moves in the game are strikingly like those from 1890 onward. First, the generals discuss military problems and an "understanding" is reached. Either concurrently or shortly afterward, this is supplemented by a political agreement. As in 1894, these preliminaries will now probably be completed by a treaty of military assistance. If France succeeds in attaining this objective, she will again have...