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...have tried my level best to carry that burden in the interests of all the people of the country," he said, "and I hope that when the history of the period is written it will be said that the effort was not in vain...
...rank & filer, now a commissar with a bleak smile and cold eye, who finds himself bewildered because, though he knows he shouldn't be, he is unhappy. Another is an ugly, peevish, middle-aged nurse secretly in love with feeble Dr. Suprugov. The doctor himself, a weak, cunning, vain, lying, frightened creature, might have come out of Chekhov...
...read or write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken physician to slash her favorite Freddie's fingers in a vain effort to alter his fingerprints...
...greatest danger facing Western Germany, however, is not want. It is not represented by the jarring contrast between the smooth face and the scarred. It is expressed in the fact that, politically speaking, Germany has no face at all. One may look in vain for it in any small town -a town, for example, like Remagen...
Apparently the voices of the coeducators have not been crying in vain these two years. If the other groups in the College which are still solely male follow this trend, joint education can be made much more than the academic shell which...