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...lone squash weekend defeat resulted from the Freshman match with Exeter Saturday afternoon at Exeter. The home team swept the contest...
Invasion. In the Aegean Sea, an Italian submarine came up off a Greek island, turned its machine gun on a lone policeman sitting on the shore. Failing to hit him, the sub dived, fled...
...investigation of murder is conducted very differently than what one would be led to believe by reading detective stories. No efficient police or ganization could tolerate the dangerous eccentricities and the relative inexpertness of most of the famous detectives of fiction. Murder is rarely solved by a lone worker but rather by the integrated efforts of a group of specialists, each of whom makes his own particular contribution to the investigation...
...symptoms presented. The essence of the investigation of a murder is to acquire all of the facts that might conceivably be of value. The police have long since learned that the most important evidence is often acquired only with the aid of various highly specialized observes and that the lone wolf type of investigator, such as depicted in most detective stories, would rarely have a case that would satisfy the requirements of an intelligent prospecting attorney...
...risk of having my Lone Ranger badge taken away for being a member of the Fifth Column, I'd like to talk about the flood of patriotic songs that the factories in Tin Pan Alley have been turning out recently...