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Psychoanalysis, "which digs down to the hidden cause of the infection and sterilizes it by exposing it to the sunlight of the consciousness...
...March sunlight gilded their breakfast tables, Washingtonians read in their morning papers that in about two weeks the Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin would be in full bloom. The same day Kansans breakfasted by lamp light and read in their morning papers that one of the worst dust storms in the history of their State was sweeping darkly overhead. Damp sheets hung over the windows, but table cloths were grimy. Urchins wrote their names on the dusty china. Food had a gritty taste. Dirt drifted around doorways like snow. People who ventured outside coughed and choked...
Back in Melbourne for Armistice Day, Gloucester dedicated its great new Shrine of Remembrance to more than 60,000 Australians killed in the War, watched a beam of sunlight slant through a slit in the wall at exactly 11 a. m. and search out the Biblical inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Day before he presented the prizes to the winners of the Centenary's biggest event, the London-to-Melbourne air races (TIME...
William Lever was the seventh child but first son of a Bolton wholesale grocer. He soon tired of gigging about the countryside selling groceries, decided to go into soap. Unlike Harley Procter who had a soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm...
...cheap, residential section of The Bronx one day last week 75 concealed Federal agents, city detectives and State troopers watched a man come out of a small stucco house, cross a lane to a frame garage. He backed his black sedan into the sunlight and 75 hearts skipped a beat when the license plate shone with the numerals 4U-13-41. Plainclothesmen followed the car a few blocks, forced it to the curb...