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...adversary no opportunity to enlarge upon this doubt by putting any of the other eye-witness defendants on the stand. Because the Constitution protects a man from testifying against himself, and because the prosecution had no eye-witness of its own, Mr. Kelley was blocked in his attempt to reconstruct the crime in any other light than as Lieut. Massie had explained it. He might belittle the Massie version to the jury but he had nothing as concrete or as plausible to set up against...
...President of the Union and "took a first" in Modern History), went to London to practice law and politics. His itch for history was too much for him; in 1923 he dropped everything else to scratch with both hands. Of a proper historian he says: "He must reconstruct the past, set old breezes stirring once again, and-most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty in conversation, in writing he-is refreshingly so. Other books: The Second Empire, Masters...
...decisive opportunity has been given to the nation to reconstruct the foundations of its life. The capitalist system has broken down even in those countries where its authority was thought to be most secure. . . . We must plan our civilization or perish. The Labor Party recognizes that the present situation calls for bold and rapid action. The decay of the capitalist civilization brooks no delay...
...larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very few of its feathers. But enough pictures and written descriptions existed to satisfy bookish students of natural history...
...owned by 1% of the population; 64% by 10%. Society treats the needy in these times as if they were "dependents, hangers-on, social liabilities." Solution: let their rights -health and unemployment insurance, maternity benefits, et al.-be given them. Let "the best minds" reconstruct our life "on sound religious principles." Let there be a "Christian motive of service...