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...Copper's Pay. Bill Drury was a plainclothesman but his clothes made a mockery of the title-his suits were" about as plain as a Capone mobster's funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather...
...week wore on, the pattern of fighting in Korea changed. The Communists' defense of Seoul, feeble at first, stiffened sharply as they poured in artillery and reinforcements. The Allied attack on Seoul bogged down into a siege. In the southeast, around the old Pusan perimeter, the Reds fought tenaciously for a few days, then began to pull back, very rapidly in some sectors. Elements of the North Korean 9th Division, which had been engaged in the southeast, surprised the Americans by appearing in the lines around Seoul-another example of the amazing mobility of the Red troops...
...place of the old English course. Burchard followed the pattern of Harvard's G.E. courses and inserted the writing of several papers into G.E. course freshmen took. Only if the quality of these papers was startlingly bad would undergraduates have to take a formal composition course as an extra subject. With this system, Burchard was able to squeeze two more terms of humanities content into the Tech undergraduate's curriculum...
Next step was to study the character of the female's radiation. Tyler knew that many organic chemicals, including some contained in moths, send out characteristic patterns of radiation with peaks on, certain frequencies. So he examined a virgin she-moth with an infrared-recording spectrophotometer. Sure enough. She did not "send" evenly on all wave lengths. Her radiation curve showed a pattern with peaks and valleys. A male equipped to receive infrared might recognize this coded signal as a she-moth's love song...
...Retch Building along with the Astronomy Building have disappeared before the wreckers. While the Graduate center has been completed and integrated into the over-all pattern of the Law School, by moving trees and redirecting paths. At Radcliffe the Yard was dug up to lay water pipes for Agassiz Hall water fountains...