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Before closing shop last week, TNEC published its recommendations. With all the ammunition the committee had stored up, a terrific broadside might have been expected. Instead, the committee rolled a rusty BB gun into place, pinged at the nation's economic problems thus...
...Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles...
...suddenly became kindergarten stuff. Along with the arithmetic went the military thinking which produced such piffling ciphers as $279,000,000. Overnight, the pleasant doings in Louisiana became old-fashioned non sense. Against Europe's total war, the U. S. Army looked like a few nice boys with BB guns...
Electron Microscopes now attract much attention among scientists who want to see ever smaller & smaller things. The magnification of ordinary microscopes is limited by the wave nature of light. Some things are so small that they slip through the meshes of the light rays like BB shot through a tennis net. Instead of a beam of light the electron microscope utilizes a beam of electrons, which have wave lengths thousands of times shorter than visible light but also make impressions on photographic plates...
...bulls-eye was Stephen Brooks '42 of Matthews who was struck in the cheek and slightly injured by a BB shot from an air rifle which caused a panic in the vicinity...