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Hunting a distant target with sunbeams reflected from an ordinary mirror is a good deal like trying to pin the tail on the donkey. This glass has a full mirror on its face, a smaller circular mirror on its back, and a sighting cross (A) in the center. To aim it, the signaler faces the mirror toward a point about halfway between the target (the plane) and the sun, and sights the target through the cross. The sun, shining through the sight, makes a cross-shaped spot of light (B) on the signaler's hand. When the mirror...
...their brother Erskine, who had scarlet fever, found they could talk to him without breaking quarantine. The doctor was astonished. Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they stole while she was in the laundry. They got the machine to say "Hello," were irritated when P. T. Barnum withdrew his offer to pay $10,000 for a machine that would really talk...
...grenade is different from ours. To arm it, they pull a pin but then they have to strike the grenade on something solid a couple of times to set off the fuse. They usually knock it on their helmets or rifle butts. They got so close to us at times, we could hear them pull the pin, bang the damn things on their helmets 'klunk-klunk'; and then 'WHAM...
...girl we would most like to be alone with in the nose of an AT-II." It is most harmlessly gratifying of all to realize that, though there is no extant Garson cheesecake (except the sporran shots from Random Harvest), you get nearly as many requests for pin up pictures as Betty Grable herself...
Twelve for the Jerries. In the limited, painfully slow action the Allies were fighting in Italy, they were expending bombs and shells lavishly, men as thriftily as the German hills permitted. If the objective was to pin down German troops and German materiel while other, greater offensives were mounted elsewhere, the Allies were succeeding, to a limited extent. After the Nazis hurried reinforcements down from the north, Montgomery and Clark between them engaged some twelve enemy divisions-probably fewer than the Allies had in Italy, no more than the Germans had in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia...