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Exhausted by the brilliant play of the Royal Navy team the previous day and by manifold strength-sapping social obligations, the Rugby Club was unable to summon enough power on Palm Sunday morning to gain the needed win over an admittedly weaker Tiger squad...
...pass these defendants a poisoned chalice," said U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson in 1945 at the start of the first Nürnberg war crimes trials, "is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
...great conch shell no longer blew to summon the people together, but from all over the island, leaving their goats and gardens behind, the people came flocking to watch the carpenters at work. Not since the days of the Bounty mutineers had Pitcairn Island made such an ado over a building. The island was getting a new schoolhouse, and with it, its first properly trained teacher...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
Last week a call was issued to U.S. churches: on Sunday Aug. 22 they were asked to ring their bells once each hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bells will summon Christians to prayer. On that day, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 450 Christian men & women delegates will begin a meeting that has been called the most significant occasion since the Protestant Reformation-the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches...