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Several Red bandit armies are constantly on the move, integrating their movements by means of field radio. While one or two armies engage Government troops one or two others sack a city, massacre, carry off prominent citizens to be held for ransom, after which all four armies withdraw banditwise to the mountains, split spoils...
...Naval Academy, he has taught mathematics at Trinity since 1892. When "Buck" Duke began to plan his great Endowment, Dr. Flowers hustled off with Dr. Few to Charlotte, N. C. to make sug- gestions. And he it was who, when Trinity decided to change its name and move its campus, roamed about the countryside looking for a suitable site, selected the wooded, hilly. 5,100 acres three miles from town and quietly bought them. Says he: "Mr. Duke loved trees. When we stood there he told me: 'This is the place...
...side and rear of my house. ... It is ... a body of water commonly known as a swamp." He said that in the swamp subsisted "a large school of frogs. . . . The sound they make . . . is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. The few remaining tenants . . . threatened to move unless something is done about...
...hardly only the rise of the number of non-educational employees but also recent difficulties with these employees and with their administrators that has accentuated the move to establish the new office. The number of employees has risen in recent years from 1200 to approximately 2500. The most recent trouble over the men and women engaged in the non-educational service of the University has been the now famous scrubwoman case which brought the University much unfavorable publicity...
Oldtimers said the gnats would soon move down the river and die. Apprehensive, farmers south of the afflicted area hastened protective preparations...