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...number of them working as a unit. The wolf pack was expanded; by last year he had the U-boats working in "echelons of divisions," patrolling in three lines or more abreast, the center line ahead of the two flanks, the U-boats strung out in a herringbone pattern astern of the leader. In perfect coordination, this array of underwater raiders lay in wait for convoys previously spotted by scouts or long-range air reconnaissance. By night, submerged, they moved under the convoy. When they came up, a few of them would draw the convoy's escort vessels...
...class struggle" painters (of whom William Gropper is best known), Kootz says: "Gropper, for instance, has never been able to invent a plastic language of his own. . . . The plain fact of the matter is that the radical pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
...expenditure pattern of a typical student may . . . be described as follows: of his total expenditures of $673.06 he spent $110.62 for room rent and $207.28 for his meals. His clothing cost him $74.78, his laundry $9.71, and the goods and services required for his personal care $6.33. His fees paid to the university amounted to $98.43 and his dues to organizations $4.93. For his textbooks he paid $26.83 and for general reading matter $2.81. Trips . . . cost about $19 and . . . health $7.27. For recreation he spent $21.83 and for refreshments and tobacco $17.60. Gifts including flowers and contributions cost...
...Pattern-Smashers. In Gettysburg, Mrs. Margaret McCleaf reached 100, said she had no idea how she had done it. In Kenton, Ohio, Samuel Bidinger, who had never been late to work in 20 years, finally muffed it by an hour and five minutes...
...this did not presage an imminent invasion of Australia. On political grounds, such an invasion would not fit into the Japanese pattern of conquest: Australia is a white man's land, and if Japan moves forward again, it is more likely to be in the direction of India, where Asiatics might be persuaded that they want Asia for themselves. Militarily it would call for tremendous expenditures, at a time when Japan must dig in on a long periphery. Raids and smaller invasions along the Allied supply line to Australia would cost less and avail almost as much. Even Australians...