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Contrast this with American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear...
David Worcester '28 is one of the few Juniors to break into the CRIMSON line up. He has been assigned the left field patrol in order that he might have the advantage of passing third base on his way in and out to his position...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...
...Stevens called a taxi, rode to the Hotel Commodore, resumed tending to the business of the Wickwire-Spencer Corp. of Tulsa, of which he is general sales manager. Glum, Messrs. Maroney, McLaughlin, Santo rode a police-patrol; morose, they sat in cells...