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...destruction of the Catholic church, not a one has a better appearance and greater external holiness than the Anabaptists. . . . They call each other brothers and sisters; they use no profanity nor unkind language; they use no weapons of defense. They are temperate in eating and drinking, they use no vain display of clothes. . . . They do not go to law before judicial courts, but bear everything patiently, as they say, in the Holy Spirit. Who would suppose that under this sheep's clothing only ravening wolves are hidden...
Comes now Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone, with their scholarship for young Nishiyama, to make me feel that maybe-repeat maybe-the 3½ years that I spent as a prisoner of war were not in vain...
...short end of a 46 to 42 score. Center Pat Dailey's two-pointer under the basket and high-scorer John Rockwell's foul shot with slightly more than a minute to play brought the Crimson to 45, but the crowd came to its feet in vain with five seconds remaining as Rockwell's one-hander slithered off the rim and the horn sounded...
...period of months the Dean's Office has quietly prodded both the trustees and ex-editors of the magazine still in College in a vain attempt to start the ball rolling. The Crimson and the Lampoon have offered to help the magazine to its feet once again in any way possible, and at least one group in the University deferred indefinitely a projected magazine of its own when the news was announced that the Advocate was to be resumed "shortly." Still the exasperating void remains--in the face of the most favorable possible situation in both the advertising and circulation...
...breathtaking plans: 1,200,000 new dwelling units in 1946, another 1,500,000 next year. His latest figures counted approximately 895,000 already started. But nearly half of this paper shelter was still uncompleted; over a third was makeshift housing, not permanent building. Home-hungry veterans hunted in vain for the $6,000 house of Wyatt's first dreams...