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...Oaken Pump...
...drinking pump in front of Hollis and Stoughton was placed there at the time of the tercentenary, in 1936, on the site of a similar apparatus which used to supply water to the residents of those Halls before "modern" plumbing was installed there...
...Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also knocked over blank walls. He won permission for field ordnance officers to award orders up to $500.000 without...
Every soldier has to go through an interminable regimen of Army inoculations. A medical attendant punctures the recruit's arm with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...
Professor Friedrich has developed both a defense and a masterly vindication of the democratic idea as a regime for civilized man. In the holocaust, his words are calculated to pump new life into a fighting democracy. In the days to come they may well serve as the basis for a happier world...