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...them assured me several times that, as a tank officer, he was the winkle on the pin if war should ever begin in earnest. ... He enjoyed his dark saying as a priceless joke...
Professor Rugg's critics accused him of disrespect to history and learning. His chief critic, practical Professor Howard E. Wilson, then at University of Chicago, investigated schools to see how the Rugg "fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood...
Among others, a lot of Alexander's arranging was done for the old Chick Webb band. In fact, if you pin him down to it, he'll admit that he was responsible for the re-birth of. "A-Ticket A-tasket", plus a lot of Chick's really good arrangements. Alexander is justly rated as one of the best in the country at arranging, and his stuff for his own band is very good...
...Lebanon, Ohio, Mrs. Louella Paugh bequeathed to her daughter-in-law one rolling-pin, one potato-masher...
...President made no comment on the obvious implication of the warning: The British would sink the Iroquois, as Germany claimed they had sunk the Athenia, and then try to pin the blame on the enemy...