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...When the zombies grope their way toward their master, who is in peril...
...left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which was believed the greater peril to the republic: Russian communism or sore gums. In short, the Americans are essentially unbusinesslike, artists and imaginers in soul. So much the better for them, I like them for it; but it would never do to tell them...
...annual report last week Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, surgeon general of the Navy, pointed with pride to practical elimination of the CO peril in Navy flying as the year's outstanding achievement of his department. Twenty-five pilots and researchers conducted the tests at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory at Anacostaia, D. C., the pilots taking up all types of ships used by the Navy under all kinds of conditions, bringing down samples of air from cockpit & cabin, giving samples of their own blood for analysis after each flight...
...that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement near Gallup, there strengthen them and bring them back. Three hundred braves trudged into the Zuni pueblos last week, dropped exhausted on the warm earthen floors. As soon as they were informed of the peril of their red-skinned charges, U. S. Indian agents organized rescue parties, made off for the snow-bound mesas. At the end of the week 789 had been rescued or had straggled home alone. But 200 more piñion nut-hunters presumably subsisting on pony meat were still unaccounted...
True, it was an Indian woman who at great peril to herself guided the Lewis & Clark Expedition, giving us the States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. One of Grant's most trusted generals in the Civil War was an Indian "buck.'' Indians saved the Plymouth and Virginia Colo nies from starvation. Indians developed the useful plants-corn, tobacco, potatoes, rubber, chocolate, the best commercial varieties of beans and cotton, to mention only a few-that comprise five-eighths of the agricultural wealth of the world today...