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...stonesetters, carvers, riggers, glassworkers and structural iron men on the job were putting 27,000 cubic ft. of Georgia marble and 6,000 sq. ft. of Maine slate into fixing up the walls and the leaky roof. They had reinforced the wooden interior beams, which were starting to rot, replaced the stone crosses set atop the spires in 1888. A $25,000 new rose window was being fashioned in Boston. Bronze main doors will replace the "temporary" wooden ones-which have stood for 70 years...
...fight to make the world safe for such tyranny as the British practice in Palestine-they send people to rot in concentration camps without trial or even charge, confiscate, search and loot without process of law. Americans once revolted for less...
...Zealander Jordan (a former policeman) sailed into the Russian delegates' interminable speeches and innumerable objections which he called "blasted old rot." "Up to now," he said, "we have got no chairman. We are just a mob. I want to see something done in my lifetime. . . I'm sick of listening to quack, quack, quack, hour after hour. . . Let's get on to work. That's what the people expect...
...This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill has given Manila just eight years grace from American tariff restrictions and, to the sugar growers of Luzon, this means that in eight years the sugar will rot on the waterfronts and even the brand new Constitution won't buy the rice or balance the books...
...copies of TIME'S domestic edition turned up in his division during the Buna campaign, the boys took infinite pains to preserve them so they could pass them along, page by page. For some reason, the slick paper they were printed on survived the New Guinea jungle rot better than any other reading matter...