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Professor Kittredge has completely revised the "History of the English Language" which precedes the main text of the dictionary...
Today Realmleader Hitler maintains a standing threat to sue anyone who makes available in a foreign language the full text of his war-breathing autobiography, My Battle, which is still Germany's bestseller, has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Available in English is nothing but a bowdlerized version with all the more violent passages purged. When a group of Frenchmen put the full text into French last year, Battler Hitler sued them in the French courts, obtained an injunction. His theory: it is good for Germans to read his hymnal of hate, bad for Germans to have...
Sequoia (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) concerns an abnormal affinity between a deer and a puma who meet in Sequoia National Park, form an allegiance which causes them to behave like the lion and the lamb in the Biblical text. Captured in infancy by a kind-hearted tourist girl (Jean Parker), Gato, the puma, and Malibu, the deer, soon learn to lap from the same dish. They are fast friends by the time Gato's habit of raiding the neighbor's chicken coop makes it necessary for their mistress to turn both loose in the forest...
...making up this pamphlet it serious error was made in the sequence of the pages. To read the text as it was written it is necessary to observe the following order: Pages 3-36 are correct as they stand; from page 36 go to 42; read first on this page the section which is upside down; read the rest of the page; read pages 43-45, go back to page 41; read page 41; from page 41 go back to page 37; read from page...
...reached and we, the people, suffer or benefit, as you will, from the talents or lack of them that characteristize our American statesmen. The Congressional Record is filled daily with their utterances and a casual reading of it will furnish a greater knowledge of American government than several ponderous text-books...