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With a battle in one band and a big letter "D" on his sweater, the first Dartmouth man to appear in the Square for Saturday's game was raised in the form of an effigy yesterday to the limb of the large tree in front of the Varsity Club...
When Achuni was taken for his most recent afternoon promenade, he committed a definite breach of etiquette by mistaking a silken limb for a tree branch and starting to make the ascent. Fortunately a disaster was averted by quick thinking on the part of a passer-by who plucked the animal from his shapely "tree" and set him to earth again...
Martin's executive vice president Joseph Hartson explained her disheveled condition. The scrambling Lilliputians were making the last of the static tests to be sure that she was sound of limb. She was being distorted by jacks, and her most fractional yieldings under the strain were being read to make sure that she would hold together under the buffeting of flight and rough-water landings...
...bringing an R.A.F. plane out of a slow roll in 1931, woke up with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...
Editorial writers throughout the land pointed out that Congress was getting itself out on a creaky limb. If Russia were suddenly to go down before the Nazis, just as the U.S. Army was well broken up, Congress would be in a fix much worse than mere embarrassment. Hitler would then have all of Europe and a big chunk of Asia. And the U.S. would be armed only with the tongues of its Congressmen...