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...sometimes without boots on. Those who stayed a few days made themselves hammocks and slung them between the buffers of vehicles, or erected microscopic tents and crawled inside. If they were parked outside a house with a lawn, they slept on it after dark, as it was a bit softer...
...fighting against cruelty, tyranny and treachery in their most detestable forms. That is why we cannot agree with the Pope when he coupled together those who commenced the war with those who prolong it, or when he suggests a negotiated peace." While remaining stern, he ended on a softer note. Said he last week: "For us to accept into full fellowship an offender who has committed wrongs against God and man, who still exults in his wickedness and proposes to repeat it when the occasion offers, would mean that we identified ourselves with his crimes. So far from Germany there...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...
...Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms to Finland would be stiffer, softer or about the same as those granted Rumania...
...decided that plastic eyes (material is similar to that used in dental plates) are better than glass eyes anyway. Advantages: 1) they are not breakable-Noles illustrates this by bouncing a plastic eye on the floor, catching it on the rebound without a scratch; 2) the softer plastic is more "sympathetic" than glass to the tissues around the eye; 3) plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because they reflect less light; 4) plastic eyes do not explode (glass eyes sometimes do, from changes in temperature); 5) plastic eyes keep their color and stay shiny longer than glass eyes...