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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers, impatiently tapped the silver snuff box on his high desk. Then, mounting the stairs which lead from the cells below directly into the prisoner's dock, appeared Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. The court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful to an enemy." His hand thrust into his trouser pocket, Fuchs whispered: "Guilty." In the visitors' gallery, which was packed with distinguished spectators, the Duchess of Kent toyed with her salmon-pink rose corsage...
...worst fire in Harvard history inspired these lines by an unknown author, as he described a blaze that burned old Harvard Hall to the ground on the night of January...
...third successive year as the world's greatest living figure skater. Since he captured the United States Novice Championship seven years ago in his first national competition, Button has swept 12 other national, world, and Olympic titles, besides introducing to competitive skating a tremendous variety of jumps that were unknown before he came on the scene...
...servant of the contemporary world. But in my time there still stirred ... a certain speculative and moral freedom. We still dared to prefer the end of life, realizable in every free and happy moment, to the means of keeping the world going faster and faster in an unknown direction. Of course, it must move on, and we with it; but we may sometimes look out of the window from the aeroplane...
...show variations in skill and manner but they are ruthlessly fixed in mood and point. In The Riddle, one of the earliest, the lid of an old lady's silk-lined chest is eagerly opened by her seven grandchildren in succession-and is silently, fatally closed by an unknown hand, with the children inside. In Strangers and Pilgrims, one of the 76-year-old master's latest, a stranger dressed all in black visits an old churchyard and examines the inscriptions on the tombstones. The old man is looking for the grave that was denied him when...