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...Museums have a natural tendency to become musty, and this tendency should be combated. In the combat some trustees must change fixed ideas, some must become a trifle more liberal in their outlook, and others must stop patronizing public officials...
Coach Fesler's men, sadly lacking in height in order to combat the taller Dartmouth forwards, were very much in the ball game in the first half. They pulled up to within three baskets of Dartmouth at the half with the score reading...
...increased its accuracy and ruggedness. Still a tough rifle to produce, the Garand was coming out of the Army's Springfield Arsenal at a 560-per-day clip. All that doubting Thomases could ask further last week was proof that the new Garand can stand up under combat firing. What, if anything, the Marine Corps testing board had to say on this important subject was a closely held secret. The Corps and the War Department merely announced that the Garand had been adopted...
...impressed the College with their presence. But still more amazing is Technology's unawareness of Harvard's unawareness. Confident that all good Harvard men spend several hours a day returning their insults, the engineers annually teach their new freshmen that the University and the Institute are engaged in mortal combat. This shadow-boxing has gone on as long as living Tech men remember...
Sergeant Pullen's tank looked just like the eight other light tanks in Company D: a squat, 27,000-lb monstrosity of one-inch armor, five guns, a single turret, a 250-h.p. radial engine, gasoline tankage for about 70 miles of combat operation at 10-35 m.p.h. It was painted a dirty brown. It was not beautiful in any sense. When Sergeant Pullen tried to put his feeling for his tank into words, he would say with passion that he would feel like beating in the face of anybody who tried to take his tank. He alone knew...