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This move by the College is a sure sign of more direction and supervision. It is a sign that the Administration realizes that when a Freshman starts his college career he is not in any way prepared for the shock of his first Mid-year. With the coming of this personal touch the rate of mortality among Freshmen should take a happy decline...
...Douglases live in an apartment over the Busy Bee Beauty shop, in Manhattan. On weekends, keeping an eye out for possible customers, they began puttering around the creek. One day they had a nasty shock. Annsville Creek, starts in a sand and gravel pit, flows under a railroad bridge and into the Hudson River. The Douglases discovered that Dottle's cabin was too high to get under the bridge...
...Brigadier General George Veazey Strong, long overdue for duty away from Washington, had been transferred from the top of the General Staff's War Plans Division to command of the VII Corps Area at Omaha. His successor was a 52-year-old, brand-new brigadier general: straight-lipped, shock-haired Leonard Townsend Gerow (pronounced jehr...
...marked contrast to the Manner heim Line was the German film, Blitzkrieg im Westen. It was designed to overawe all who see it. If it drives U. S. audiences under the bed, it will succeed, but it seemed more likely to shock complacent Americans and make them aware of the swift, titanic, destructive power of the greatest military force in the world today: the German Army...
Craning his neck to get a ringside view from the fighters' aisle at a Mexico City bullfight, inquisitive Biographer Emil Ludwig got the shock of his life when an angry bull lunged out of the ring, pursued him hotly down the passageway...