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After completion of the new construction Harvard Street will be a straight right of way into the Longfellow Bridge and one of the most direct and easiest routes into Boston...
...will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal job is to serve as Il Duce's messenger boy at international conferences. He will encase his elegant legs in the breeches of the King's own Lancers, the swank Vittorio Emanuele II Regiment, and spend...
...sense of incredulity is quite excusable. Yet the facts ARE facts--and into the bargain they are quite easily explicable. In this present imperfect world nations have yet found no agreement upon practical methods of disarming. So long as they refuse to, the easiest way for them to stay armed is to permit a full exploitation of private profit system in the manufacture of armaments. By this device nations avoid the expense and annoyance of maintaining plants and inventories of armaments throughout a period of twenty years when perhaps they may never be needed at all; the private armorer meanwhile...
...ball player, but as a track coach he would be a dead failure. In the game with Andover last Saturday the captain of the schoolboys asked for a courtesy runner. Frank surveyed the occupants of the Andover dugout in an attempt to decide which of the subs would be easiest to catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
There are occasional evidences of unconsidered translation, where the translator has reached for the easiest word. But the over-all result is quite satisfactory...