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CrrrrrrrrrrASHbooooooooMMOOOORRooooooooomm! Turrets, walls and belfry rocked and rose, crumpled, crashed, subsided. Six hundred years ago the good St. Sergius began what was now ended. Pouncing with zeal on the debris, each of the 5,000 Comrades picked up as big a chunk of stone as he could carry, ran panting and puffing with it as fast as he could to the brink of the wimpling Moskva, plumped his burden in, watched exultingly while it sanka fitting deathday tribute to LENIN...
...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...
...years, unless the Smithsonian Institute is deceived about the age of the shells in its cases. But not until the year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. operating in Rhode Island, Connecticut...
...Sergius Wjarasmutkin, Tuesday is a national holiday. To celebrate it your factory has been chosen as the place in which to show a film sent to us from Moscow. It is called Wind, and it is half educational and half propaganda...
...ground. In an instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov, singed, fled for his life. A pitiful few escaped through a trapdoor to the floor below, but 120 were burnt alive. Wild-eyed peasants, unable to save their friends, rushed to the home of Sergius Wjarasmutkin. It was his factory, he must be to blame. Wjarasmutkin was beaten, stoned. At last the bleeding factory manager was thrown screaming into the blazing ruins...