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...TIME'S review of Anthropologist Hooton's Apes, Men and Morons you quote his statement that sooner or later the public is going to call Science's bluff of omniscience. As the worthy professor is guilty of many positive statements which smack of omniscience, his bluff is herewith called...
Yessir, folks, we have two perfect tickets for tomorrow's game just waiting for someone smart enough to grab the opportunity. In regard to the location of the tickets, they're one on each side of Harlow, smack on the 50-yard line...
...towns lacked military importance. Lerida, a key town in the Leftist defense of Barcelona, was the temporary headquarters of Leftist Commander General Sebastian Pozas, and Barbastro not only contained many Leftist ammunition dumps but was last week an important Leftist base. One of Lerida's bombs landed smack on a public school, killed 70 children. Hundreds of adults were shot down by planes furiously strafing the streets. Three days later Leftist bombers were over Rightist held Saragossa in turn, blew up a munition dump. Elaborately Leftist propagandists explained that this was not retaliation. Because their strength depends entirely...
...Italy admits to having 40,000 volunteers in Spain, competent neutrals estimate not over 80,000, but on escaping to France last week in a fishing smack, famed Leftist Belarmino Tomás announced with a fine Spanish flourish, "110,000 Italian troops were responsible for Franco's capture of Gijón and northwest Spain...
Adjourning to the roof of the Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured...