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...What we value as individuality -fascinating temperaments, charms of vivacity, woe and sympathy- are all due to definite harmonies, some of which are already known as chemical compounds. Courage is not a matter of 'sand' but of sugar...
...your brother and your poor mother. But, in spite of all, the free spirit of a father's faith still survives, and I have lived for it and for the dream that some day I would have come back to life, among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me." Despondent, indeed, was the tone of Mr. Sacco's letter and gloomy the outlook for both Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti. For the pendulum that has for seven years swung between life and death last week swung toward death again. Since the publication of sensational affidavits alleging...
...installs him in the barn of Shane Castle (the Shane family, bygone royalty of "the Town," being lugged in to connect this book with its predecessors as another "panel" in the Bromfield series). Mary Conyngham is out to rescue Philip from his mother, whose pious meddling caused everyone's woe...
Barnacles, woe of ship masters who know how seriously the clinging crustacea retard ship speed, dislike a paint containing a combination of copper and mercury, explained Dr. Anthony Moultrie Muckenfuss, research chemist of Perth Amboy, N. J. All hulls could be painted with the material...
...Hankow, seat of the most radical Chinese faction, the editor of the People's Tribune wrote, last week: "There are whispers of woe and impending disaster in the air." Actually the "whispers" were shouts of terror. Four armies, representing the so-called "moderate" factions of China* were encircling Hankow from all directions except the Northwest. Thus the fall of Hankow, and butchery of actual as well as so-called "Reds" there, seemed last week momentarily imminent...