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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plaintiff, it was brought to his attention that the Defendant had printed on the inside of each and every booklet . . . in place of the words 'Paid political adv. by G. L. Evers, Dadeville, Ala.,' the ribald and obscene picture of a boy urinating in a stream of water, and with words of warning, printed thereunder, 'Don't drink water-drink beer...
...consequently steadily rises above the adjoining land. To keep the river in line the Chinese have long built dikes. Rising floor and walls have made the river an aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that peasants of the area call it "China's Sorrow," "The Ungovernable," "The Scourge of the Sons of Han."* Like a sluggish whiplash the river has many times changed its channel...
...remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used to lie so snug and warm when you drew the life stream 20 years ago, and where the heart still beats to love you dearly till its last sigh, which even then will love you best...
...Jacques prefers animal charcoal because its ''particles are less angular and smoother than those of vegetable (wood) charcoal." The carbon particles he declares "disappear rapidly from the blood stream after their injection and are found lodged in the various organs: first and above all in the lungs, but also in the spleen and liver and, to a less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous...
...Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides a stream of raw and war materials...