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...found that the movers had not yet arrived with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...
...sighted it; but when Ensign Francis E. Pinter eased his ship down to 200 ft., he could make out 17 people crowded upon it. To attempt a landing in such a choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore 1,800 Ib. lighter. He decided to try a landing anyhow, and he got away with...
Some 2,500 of Japan's planes were "first-line" combat craft, and many of these 2,500 were technically inferior to corresponding U.S. and British types. The other 2,500 were mostly slow, ancient, underpowered, underarmed crates, some of which did not even have retractable landing gear (see cut). Furthermore, Japan has had very heavy losses - some 1,100 planes, undoubtedly including a high proportion of her best...
...This is not to say," he warned "that colleges should submit blindly to the current social opinion of the moment. They should gear their work to the needs an ideal society. It is their job to be always critical of society as if is at present, and to teach an educated group of men and women who shall be able to judge their environment, and change it for the better...
With Brendon Reilly hurling effectively for the whole seven innings and baffling the opposition with six hits, while striking out thirteen batsmen, the Crimson attack went into high gear, garnering a total of nine hits which produced 11 runs...