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Chairman Vinson spilled the secret after telling the Bureau of Ships that he intended to do so. One morning Rear Admiral Walter Stratton Anderson, director of Naval Intelligence, woke up to find the Navy's precious table printed in an extension of Vinson's remarks in the Congressional Record (whence it was speedily extracted by the press). Put down in one place for all to see, the Navy's summary was probably more complete than any that a foreign agent could compile from the most careful collection of individual contract announcements...
...Great affinity for gold, silver, other precious metals and for precious stones...
...ahead to Libya over the road which the Italian invaders had conveniently built. When Bardia proved too tough a problem for motorized troops with air and naval aid to solve, the British had to spend a fortnight strengthening their land forces and hauling up heavy artillery, while Graziani gained precious time for reorganization at Tobruch...
...paper at the meeting was read by Dr. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, professor of Oriental history at the University of Chicago. A decade ago he began writing a history of the Near East, found such disagreement among scholars over the origins of Christianity that he "was compelled to devote precious years to the investigation of the New Testament for myself." Historian Olmstead's findings made most of his Bib Lit colleagues sputter. They think the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) give the truest picture of Christ's life, assign a much later date to St. John...
...Englishman wrote: This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...