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...last Sunday, 1 changed my mind about the bells. While many undergraduates lay in their beds and others, indecently awake before noon, anxiously studied for their exams, the bells rang. The sound was deafening. There is no excuse for such raucous noise. At least during reading and exam periods, the bells should be silent. Christopher A. Smith...
Pont from $56.7 million to a whopping $73.8 million. In the auto industry, General Motors roared ahead with profits of $189 million, $38 million better than in 1953, rang up the second highest first-quarter sales record (705,303 passenger cars) in history. Some companies had slipped. U.S. Steel dropped $4.6 million to $44.8 million, and the railroads were down. The pressure was also on the independent automakers, and they did poorly. Studebaker lost $6,000,000 and passed its dividend. Nash lost $750,000, Packard $380,000 during the first three months. Kaiser reported that it had lost...
...Light Brigade were being torn to shreds. "Death was coming fast, and the Light Brigade was meeting death in perfect order; as a man or horse dropped, the riders on each side . . . opened out; as soon as they had ridden clear, the ranks closed again." Words of command "rang out as on the parade ground: 'Close in to your center. Back the right flank! Keep up. Private Smith. Left squadron, keep back. Look to your dressing.' Until at last, as the ranks grew thinner and thinner, only one command was heard: 'Close in! Close in! Close...
...mother's 13 children. To support them, Tomaso D'Alesandro, Tommy's father, swung a pick in a city rock quarry. Such work was not for junior. While still at night high school, he hung around the Third Ward Democratic headquarters, at election time rang door bells and passed handbills...
...returned to their apartment to find the door half open, blood on the floor, and blood on the wallpaper as high as their heads. In the corner, their poodle lay covered with blood, whimpering. One of his front teeth had been knocked out. In the empty apartment, the telephone rang insistently...