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...Italy between the Franco-Sardinians and the Austrians, the paramount problem was to lessen the hardships of war by caring for the wounded soldier. Having seen thousands of wounded men lie on the battlefield for days in unattended agony, Dunant returned to Geneva to write his horror-filled Un souvenir de Solférino, to start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help of Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments...
...fairly good sized crowd of Exonians had turned out to see, the take-off. The group was shortly augmented by three-quarters of the town when the tree development occurred. Stevens thought that some of the crowd looked a little too much like souvenir hunters, so he hired a watchman to stand guard over his ship during the night...
Since then the Radcliffe Maintenance men have adopted it, carefully setting it out every morning and bringing it back under cover when the day's work is done. Every admirer of the plant is jealously watched as a potential souvenir hunter...
Free cigarettes provided by Leavitt and Peirce, 21 cases of root beer furnished by Hires Root Beer company, and all the ice cream that you can eat will be distributed. All guests will be given souvenir pipes during the performance. All Freshmen will be admitted and upperclassmen are welcome as long as there is room. The doors will open at about 10 o'clock...
...Paris, Rasonski's conference with Napoleon was as brief as it was fruitless. Dzjunka's one interview with the Emperor lasted slightly longer. As a souvenir she carried away a jeweled smelling-salts bottle and a future son. Although Rasonski got a vast Polish estate out of it and married Dzjunka, the knowledge of her infidelity turned him into a Napoleon hater, a valued Russian spy; inspired him with the cunning strategy of tormenting his wife by keeping a close watch over her, repaying her rebuffs and infidelities with perfect gallantry (meanwhile sublimating his venom by torturing...