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...coat where I had carried it," Shawcross quoted Fuchs as saying. "I was ready to accept the philosophy of the party as right in the coming struggle." The Chief Justice, listening with hard lines of patience on his face, opened the small silver box and took a pinch of snuff...
...week's end, M & F's President Aaron Frank had still not relented, and the Oregonian (which lost its M & F ads once before when it opposed Julius Meier for governor) was not backing down either. Though it was beginning to feel the financial pinch, the 100-year-old paper defied M & F in a Page One editorial : "As a matter of traditional policy, the Oregonian strives to report the news completely, impartially and without fear or favor. The Oregonian will continue...
...brilliantly proves the rightness of his conviction. But in finding success, 32-year-old Tillstrom has lost his own identity. Like Singer Fran Allison, the only other human regularly on his show, he has been swallowed up by the puppet world he made. The world revolves around Kukla, a pinch-faced, sadly wise, sentimental puppet, and Ollie, a one-toothed dragon whose preenings and posturings might have been conceived by Moliére. It is also peopled by such types as Fletcher Rabbit, whose "mother was a suffragette, and who consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view...
...well as most other American universities, is over-producing scholars. According to Provost Buck, the time is not far off when higher education will have all the teachers it needs, and when unemployment will face Ph.D.'s. Some categories of degree-holders physicists, for instance won't feel the pinch, but others the social scientists will...
...Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...