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...bankers were forced to sell every inch of land Old Man Towne had ever owned. When the old man heard that, he died. The lawyer buried him in an Indian mound, and the Negroes raised above him their rich shout of "resurrection and green pastures and surcease of toil...
...minutes Winston Churchill answered his critics in tones both of challenge and of humility. He made a long appeal for sympathy because he had been criticized while he was overseas talking to Franklin Roosevelt. He also made the salutary admission that "I have stuck hard to my 'blood, toil, tears and sweat'-to which I have added muddles and mismanagements...
...small town of Lidice, not far from Prague, there lived 1,200 human beings. Some worked in the orchards, gardens and fields which they owned; others were woodworkers and coal miners; still others walked 45 minutes every day to toil in the munitions plant at Kladno. Lidice had a churcht. Martin's—which was nearly five centuries old and to which the people of four nearby villages flocked on Sundays...
...read & write Japanese; to the best of the Government's knowledge, the U.S. has no one at all who can teach such essential linguistic tools of war as Burmese, Swahili, Malagasy. For its traditional monolingual isolation, the U.S. last week paid with mental toil and sweat...
...Belles Toil. In Manhattan, 300 wailing, dejected gypsies saw a draftee off to camp. Gypsy "King" Steve Kaslov had tried to get him deferred, as a married man. Replied a draft official: "Selective Service is well aware that it is your tribal custom to have the women support...