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Terrible fates lay hidden in the folds of all the earth's continents last week. They were trapped there, but they strained to be loose upon populations. One key only could unlock them-the defeat of Britain. Last week the key was set in the keyhole...
...seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
Legend says that on at least two occasions outsiders got in: once when firemen were admitted to put out a fire-after first being initiated into the society; another time when a Keys man, pretending to have lost his Bones key, got a campus policeman to unlock the door...
...cyclotron will uncover in the inner heart of matter. But no physicist doubted that it would unlock many a treasure house of secrets; and, more, show the way to new treasure houses now unsuspected...
...unsuspecting sentries saluted, returned a "Merry Christmas," hastened to unlock the gates. Scarcely were they opened before out of the dark appeared other men, not in Army uniforms, who held guns rather than parcels in their hands. Without a shot fired, the arsenal's guard was disarmed. Four official-looking lorries soon drove into the arsenal, and before the Island Bridge barracks knew what was up. the trucks, loaded with 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, had made their getaway...