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Soldiers who like duck eggs had better restrain their appetites when they invade Europe or the Dutch East Indies. Duck eggs often contain a variety of Salmonella -bacteria which cause paratyphoid fevers and intestinal disorders...
...enterprise," but for "free, private, competitive enterprise . . . the absence of all uncontrolled monopoly and special privilege wherever they may have been found in the past." Prior to this unmistakably official statement, free enterprise could as well as not have been interpreted-and was, by some N.A.Magnates-as freedom to restrain one's competitors in the interests of an "orderly" market...
...three great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain and have no thought of territorial expansion...
...woman began to weep. "Her name is Miss Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...
...Reformed Church's General Synod, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., told the State Department that "the duty has been laid upon us by Christ to preach the Gospel to all nations. . . . [To] restrain all but one faith from doing what under conscience is the duty of all faiths is a violation of religious liberty...