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...your issue of Nov. 19 you translate "Gott strafe England," as "God Damn England." A far more accurate translation would have been: "God punish England," the meaning back of the word "strafe" being that punishment is merited. Had your version been intended the German would have been one of two expressions, "Gott verdammt sei England," or, "Gott verdamme England." There is quite a difference between invoking punishment and invoking damnation...
...paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will be required in large quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed at all. The last category -joy of the pork barrel experts, sorrow of the tax-payer-is what will be watched...
Murderer Chung pleaded his own appeal before the Lord Chief Justice. When judgment was about to be pronounced, Chung Yi-miao leaned forward and cupped his hand behind his ear, in order not to miss a word...
...generally recognized that this circumstance of the controlling of the first press in the country by Harvard did much to make establishment of the printed word in the United States comparatively easy, in a time when novelties were under some suspicion by the conservative puritans who deprecated anything new. The name of Harvard protected it from much criticism which might otherwise have attacked it. Since no criticism assailed the innovation no restrictions were placed on what the Glover-Daye press sought to print. The printers were free to accept, refuse, and print whatever their whims dictated...
...Lack of spirit, did I say? Spirit, in the language of the barracks and of the dormitories and the language of these is quite similar), is nothing but a four-letter word meaning intestinal fortitude, an ugly little word known as "guts...