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...game, and destroyed the goalposts. Why the College should sit fatly by and watch the riot, I cannot understand. Could not a couple of hundred students, or police with fire-hose, be mobilized to guard the field and posts? Or could not the posts be electrified so as to shock any who touched them, even to the extent of fixing the touchers to the posts, so that all could be carted down to the River and thrown in? Or perhaps best of all would be to lead tear gas or stink gas to the goal region, so that when...
...unidentified professor remarked, "Who is Professor Burns? Obviously, someone trying to shock school marms." Associate Professor Paul H. Buck commented, "Silly," and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, called the speech, "Fantastic...
...meaning of President Roosevelt's recent announcement that the U.S. is going to double its tank program may in a few months hit the U.S. with something of a pleasant shock. The U.S. Army's Armored Force already has two crack divisions in the field, three in training, another about to be organized, plus 15 separate battalions. But it is now obvious that this force, far from being a military sapling, is little more than an acorn...
...picture is Flight Sergeant MacPherson. the shock-haired, strong-nosed little Scotsman, one of the R.A.F. 's best navigators. His importance to the picture is twofold. He represents the unheadlined heroes of the air, the gunners, bombardiers, radio operators, grease-monkeys, whose functions appear for the first time in Target in their true perspective: fully as exciting and significant as the pilots...
...Shock-haired, Polish-American Artur Rodzinski, conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, last week had his packjammed audience humming with him. Everybody knew the music - from Jerome Kern's classic musicomedy, Show Boat. Conductor Rodzinski, who rates the Show Boat music "true" and "great" U.S. song, last summer invited Composer Kern to give it the symphonic works. The result is called Scenario for Orchestra...