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...looked pleasantly open, and after drifting quite a way I thought I saw where I should land. Two farm hands had the same idea. We were all wrong as in spite of attempts on my part to avoid it I came down in a spinney of young oak trees, pulling up short about 20 ft. from the ground, hanging in my harness. I managed to get hold of a trunk, pull myself over to it, get out of the parachute harness and climb to the ground where I remained quite still until I was found...
...remnant's loudest cry: no aid to Britain. Because Eleanor Roosevelt had advocated compulsory youth work camps, delegates last week divorced her (by mutual consent). They also demanded that the U. S. ally itself with China and the Soviet Union, wired President Roosevelt: YOU CAN'T PULL A WILSON...
...published, and broadcast for public consumption, and when a few strictly Broadway guys get together and try to deprive their fellow-citizens of one of the few sources of fun left to them these days, then they deserve everything that hits them, and I hope the Government doesn't pull its punches...
...love" and "30-all" are music to your cars, drop in at 67a Mt. Auburn Street almost any time, and pull up a cracker box. When not on the courts, coaches Jack Barnaby and Dick Dorson spend most of their time in the shop, discussing strategy with their players or demonstrating a new slice backhand--to the imminent danger of life, limb, and the surrounding show-cases. Squad lists and tournament draw cards litter the room, for this is the indoor center of Harvard's tennis and squash activity...
...Rome, decreed that his troops in Bardia must hold out to the end to permit Marshal Rodolfo Graziani to consolidate a stand at Tobruch, 70 miles westward along the coast of Libya. Holding on stubbornly they had by week's end already given Graziani 14 days to pull his shattered army together...