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...oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also had to be fed. . . . There was one other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else...
...selected Joe Morrill to guard the cage for the start of tonight's game over his closest competitor for the position, Westy Adams. The competition for the regular position is still keen, however, and it is by no means certain that Morrill will continue to hold down the starting job in every game this season...
...towing destroyer, thus releasing a dynamometer switch and blowing up the paravane which is filled with lyddite. The cost of these explosive paravanes is, including the winch and apparatus, almost as high as that of a torpedo. Once paravane is streamed it is a very risky, if not impossible job to get it in without blowing it up. It is impossible make port with it because it will blow up on striking bottom ( being fitted with cross triggers in the head) so one has to be very sure that they have a submarine to deal with before putting the paravane...
...Political Bureau of the Communist Party: the dictature over which Joseph Stalin now presides, ruling all Russia. Last week M. Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage and odd job propaganda. Citizens of Leningrad, once M. Zinoviev's political bailiwick, signalized his utter downfall by changing the name of Zinoviev University to the University of Leningrad...
...made. Then there was John M. Van Heusen, who vainly tried to sell the material to collar manufacturers until one day he talked to Isaac ("Iky") Phillips, a shirt manufacturer. Mr. Phillips arranged to give Mr. Van Heusen a royalty and had his Phillips, Jones Co. make up a job lot of the new collars...