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Falkenhorst means "falcon's eyrie," and it was his use of winged killers that swept Germany's new hero to his fame. Blond, blue-eyed, smallish Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 55, had proved himself a pitiless war lord. His soldierly qualities came to him from a line of professional fighters and from the same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack...
...Horace Henry Hayden opened the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first in the world. In the freshman class were five students, their only qualifications reading & writing, tough biceps. After a four-month course, the boys went out into the world to battle brawny patients, crazy with pain. "Be pitiless," counseled Dr. Harris. "As the patient is very apt to catch the hand of the operator, he must have both hands ready and, when one is pulled away, seize the instrument with the other and so go on until the operation is complete...
...Pendergast machine that not a word about Mary McElroy's kidnapping did Kansas Citizens read until she had been ransomed by her father for $30,000, returned to him 30 hours later. But from the moment the story broke, frail-looking, emotional, motherless Mary McElroy lived in a pitiless glare of publicity...
...road and all the hills of the valley, one can see the carcasses of their animals rotting and the bones of their horses whitening in the sun. The Chinese peasants who were impressed to take their places were driven forward with the same pitiless fury until they collapsed, died, or were driven...
...recent years, Mr. Evans' interpretation is vigor ous, and comparatively speaking, simple. To the ghost, Hamlet shows a nature capable of passionate hatred; to his uncle, he is actively hostile, not sullen or melancholy; to Polonius, he is flip, humorous; to Ophelia, deeply in love; to his mother, pitiless, scornful. Even when alone, Hamlet the melancholy philosopher is subordinate to Hamlet the emotional youth...