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...slowly. Every German political leader with whom I have talked here -Socialist or Christian Democrat or Separatist-acknowledges these two facts at once. The future, not of Bavaria alone but all Germany, and perhaps all Europe, depends heavily on whether the U.S. reacts to these facts with only a shudder, or with intelligence and understanding...
...darkness before dawn things began to go wrong. On the flight engineer's board, instrument needles flickered away from their reassuring positions. An outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
This is an ingenious system, if a socialistic tendency or two doesn't make you shudder. Although there are lots of differences between Sarah Lawrence's and Harvard's problems of student fees, Harvard could not ignore the Sarah Lawrence system if another tuition rise comes. That is if Harvard hopes to keep on having its "broadly representative student body...
...willows shudder with light on the long Ohio...