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Nakago's five square miles contain eleven hamlets scattered between the stray, stony ridges of fingerlike hills that protrude above its low-lying rice paddies. Nearly half Nakago's area can be cultivated and its families own an average of almost three acres. The wealthiest villager had 97 acres before land reform...
Communist armies stood outside Nanking last week. Nationalist troops gave no sign of preparing to defend the Yangtze. Nanking's sprawling government buildings were almost empty. A coolie, asleep in a ministerial chair, opened one eye and told a stray English caller: "Minister, he gone two days now. Not know where...
...with shining eyes and jet black hair. She wanted the "good things in life." In the fall of 1943, she began to go about with one Vincenzo Antonelli, a notorious young Fascist street brawler, who roamed the Jewish quarter with a gang of toughs, plundering shops and beating up stray Jews. Then the Nazi SS (which ruled Rome) started raiding the ghetto. Whole families were sent to concentration camps...
...this chamber that protrous are sent spinning at whirlwind velocities before they crash into fissionable material. However, all the air must be removed so that the protons will not collide with stray atoms in their path. This is the reason for the vacuum...
Matters are fortunately different for '52. Except for a few stray sophomores, the Yard is populated entirely by first-year men. Eating lines are modest, since the Houses have divided up and absorbed the mob of upperclass non-House residents. This allows Union executives enough yardage to make the Union a true freshman center--not just a chow hall--and to plan ahead for activities previously impossible or extremely difficult...