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...argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena's next move ought to have opened his eyes to how much she cared. She cut her cheek, ripped her clothes half off, instructed him to drag her through the streets to avoid suspicion that he was not one of the pillagers. He did his best to follow instructions, got cut off every time only because he was not thoroughgoing enough. Once they passed a Serbian prisoner who spotted part of De Queslain's French uniform. This...
...Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and wishing to get married wrote to inquire whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times reprieved, he was still in the death house awaiting execution last May when Franklin Roosevelt, trolling for tarpon off Texas, received a letter from Newshawk Philip H. Love of the Washington Star. Newshawk Love reported that, preparing himself to write about...
...struts and wires which characterized old planes have been removed, the wing has increased from one-third of total drag to about half. To reduce this the NACA experimented with the friction set up by rivets and lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...
Because they increase wing drag, wing deicers* are usually removed from U. S. airline transports during summer. Last week all wing deicers were off, but this time there was an added reason for their removal-they have been causing trouble on the new Douglas DC-38. On one American Airliner last month the rubber boot split, on another a section of the wing's skin crystallized and tore away. These incidents were minor, but enough to cause a Bureau of Air Commerce request that all present deicers be removed from DC-38 and improved to meet the greater stresses...
...record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell...