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...system but it carries its own generating plant. It also carries a reservoir of 1,000 quarts of water. All the buildings contain portable hot-water radiators run by electricity, as well as small electric stoves. When time comes to move, everything folds up: the 350 iron cots with rope bottoms, the well-equipped doctors' offices, the dentist's office, the operating room, with its sterilization units, operating tables, instrument cases. Like a circus on the march, the hospital rolls off down the highway with its staff of 60 nurses, eleven doctors, one dentist, two druggists, 95 general...
...will really earn his four pounds. There is no limit to the bad effects of a precedent like this, and it mustn't be allowed to go on too long. If something happened to the Memorial Hall clock, would we just let it lie? If the rope on the church-bell broke, would we give up in despair? A University is not made of quitters. The repaired clock would give the Yard a new lease on life, and show the Square that Harvard is still wound...
Lynn Brua '41, a member of the varsity fencing team, has a rope-spinning act after the style of Will Rogers, which he developed over the course of ten years, while both a clown and a Punch and Judy show are acts offered that are exceptionally well suited to children parties...
...Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in whose aristocratic veins flowed the blood of Hungary's unscrupulous, wheedling past. Assured of a career by virtue of birth, Count Csáky became Europe's foremost professional in the art of diplomatic tightrope-walking even after the rope had become a Balkan tangle...
...Defense, letters of protest harried the responsible agencies in Washington. The War Department published a long list of U. S. companies. All were out for something (tax concessions), but all were producing something for Defense: powder, trucks, elastic stop nuts, brass & copper, engines, airplanes, cotton cloth, machine tools, worsted, rope. Army lieu tenants (the Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa. claimed tax concessions on the ground that it was expanding its capacity to train cadets). President Roosevelt sensed and rode the current...