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Seethings. Not all Britons took their new burdens as quietly as Chancellor Snowden suggested. Outside the Houses of Parliament little groups collected under their ringleaders shouting in unison "One, two three? HANDS OFF THE DOLE!" and "One, two, three?WE STAND FOR THE WORKING CLASSES, DOWN WITH THE RULING CLASSES!" British bobbies did not charge but nudged them out of the square...
...months of pleading gained her admittance to the sisterhood. In 1897 she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24, unknown. But she had written a simple autobiography of her spiritual life, and, presently, the name of Sister Therese was known to the hearts of men everywhere. In spiritual unison millions called her "The Little Flower of Jesus" for the incomparable beauty of her faith. In 1923 she was beatified; in 1925, canonized...
...what was happening at the post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion ? that second in which the crowd took its breath to let out the abrupt blurred noise that meant the Derby had started...
Last month in Editor & Publisher, 25 editors of the business press reported cheerily in unison that, in spite of the recent stockmarket crash, "Business is essentially sound." They had heard the story from President Hoover a month before when they went to call on him at the White House. Differing but slightly in the degree of their optimism, only their method of individual delivery distinguished each glad statement. In part, said they...
With significant unison the Soviet and Chinese governments both stopped last week their game of hurling counter charges that Chinese and Russian troops were raiding each other's positions along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier (TIME, July...