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Here if anywhere was Britain's second front to help the Russians. Here if anywhere was Britain's chance to knock the Eyeties out of the war. Churchill and his Cabinet, after spouting about a Blenheim and a Waterloo, would very likely stand or fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next...
Yale's soccer captain George Haines broke up a 1-1 deadlock in the final quarter of yesterday's Varsity soccer match with a long looping kick to upset the Crimson eleven 2 to 1 and to knock the bottom out of the Harvard booters' season...
...That goat will knock him Flathmann," cried Wun Hug, and Harlow will sabotage the Navy...
Then it did come to him. A million ideas rushed into the vacuum of Vag's mind all at once, and with the force of a hurricane. He saw the whole conference hour within the space of a few seconds . . . the knock on the door . . . Hello, sir. I'm terribly sorry about Monday. Isn't that a new Rembrandt print hanging over the mantlepiece? I think Rembrandt combines the best qualities of both the Dutch and Flemish schools of art, don't you? . . . What did you say? Psychology? Oh --that reminds me. I was talking to my section...
...walked down the hall to his tutor's room and was about to knock on the door when he saw a note tacked up and addressed to himself. "Sorry I can't make it this afternoon," it read. "An old classmate just got into Boston and wants me to 'paint the town red.' Will call and make another appointment in the near future." Vag pinched himself hard in three different places, turned a complete somersault, and then whistled, long...