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...what he has been known to do. Bud Kast, a starter against F. and M. and Columbia also may see considerable action. Although inexperienced, he is very shifty in an open field and is a good passer. It was his toss to Wolfe that scored against Yale. Joe Arico, fastest man in the backfield, comes nearest to being a climax runner, and may also play as a halfback...
Tanks. Speed is the keystone of Hitler's Army, and the fastest, toughest fighting machines in it are tanks. Their performance in Poland and Flanders so impressed the U. S. Army's General Staff that they redesigned their medium tanks to give them more armor and weight. Army men are still scratching their heads for an effective defense against them...
Similarly fixed is Dr. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah, Anglican Bishop of Dornakal. His diocese is the fastest-growing in the world for he touches India's untouchables. Finding their lot hopeless under the Brahmans, these outcasts have professed Christianity at the rate of 10,000 a year, as fast as the clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley...
William C. Palson, who turned in the best Freshman time, and Robert Burns, a junior, finished second and third respectively out of a field of 29 men. Captain Langdon Burwell who ran the fastest actual time for the three and seven tenths of a mile course was clocked under twenty minutes but could not overcome a heavy handicap and failed to finish among the first three...
Streams. The Census showed that certain rivers of migration, begun in the decade before last, still flowed on. The great exodus was from Oklahoma and the other drought-area States in the Great Plains tier (see map). Fastest-growing State was Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest...