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Forgery in Stone? Doubters soon spoke up to spoil the fun. Experts on old Norse writing claimed that the language was like no known Scandinavian dialect. Authorities decided that the stone was a forgery. It was probably carved, they thought, by a friend of Farmer Ohman, an unfrocked Swedish minister who was known to have had a Swedish grammar with a section on runes. During the past 50 years few real experts have even bothered to study the discredited stone...
...undermanned Crimson football team did its best to spoil Holy Cross' opening game in the Stadium Saturday, holding the visitors to a 6 to 6 tie through the first quarter; but the superior talent and depth of the Crusaders was more than enough to give them an eventual, and fairly easy, 33 to 7 victory...
...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...
...have charity is a man's own decision, and he cannot be criticized for it. But to limit or spoil the charity of others is despicable. And when that charity is small and cheap, a man must be very cheap indeed to take it away...
...Life So Nice? Roger Buliard found no "noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the face of. death, but without the softer virtues of pity and compassion. They treat their women, Buliard concluded, as mere objects of comfort, and they occasionally kill rivals to get them. Yet they are capable of a certain philosophical appreciation of the value and transitoriness of life. Buliard is struck...