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...Lowell House apartment waiting until such time as he will be called upon to deliver his course on "International Economic Policies." Hardly the figure of a sinister plotter, as the Goebbelu press so liken to paint him, he is a pleasant, mild mannered German, possessing just the slightest trace of an accent...
...went to the Decker place and in a sharecropper cabin I found the woman chained to a bed with a trace chain locked around her neck. She had been there several days. She had been fed well and other than being chained apparently had not been harmed. I ordered the woman unchained and took her and Wiggin off the farm...
...TIME was not quite accurate in saying Pennsylvania Dutch is a mixture of German, Dutch & English. It is a potpourri of plattdeutsch, high German, English and contains many colloquialisms, the origins of which are difficult to trace. Pennsylvania Dutch dialects and word usages differ considerably even in the five principal Pennsylvania Dutch counties: York, Bucks, Lehigh, Berks and Carbon...
...subject to rude attentions of veterinarians, sent by the State Department of Agriculture to test them for tuberculosis. The test was simple and harmless : the injection of a small quantity of tuberculin, made from the bacteria of tuberculosis, under the animal's skin. If she had the slightest trace of the disease, the cow would develop fever, and be killed as a menace to other cows and to children who drank her milk. Since the Gibsons neither permitted their cows to herd with other cows nor sold their milk, Lawyer Gibson sturdily stood on his legal right...
Since most of the writing is in illegible scawls, the manuscripts are accompanied by the first published editions, so visitors may trace the development of the works by comparison with the printed texts...