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...think in my coat"), with six pipes close at hand. At the start, he rarely settled down to work until 11:30 a.m., and he generally broke; up the afternoon for such engagements as golf with Leopold of the Belgians. At the end, he was on a strict 9-to-6 regimen...
...Samuel Dacke Harkness, 66, grew up in a background where theology was orthodox and strict. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, young Sam earned a doctor's degree from Missouri Valley College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1908. But his experiences in the ministry soon began to jar loose some of the orthodox rivets in his Presbyterianism...
...take my husband?", Harkness made the stock answer: it was the will of God to which all must submit. But on the drive back to town, the doctor turned to the minister to ask: "Why did you tell her that nonsense about the will of God? Against my strict orders she gave her husband a meal of fried pork, and it killed him." Then, says Harkness, "I realized that God does not interfere with the operation of natural law from cause to effect...
Such bits of gossip are scarce, because the Soviet air force lives in strict seclusion; the bright blue shoulder boards of the Red airmen are seen only rarely by East zone Germans. Airmen and service troops are frequently moved from one airfield to another to prevent accurate estimates of their strength. There are also frequent exchanges of personnel between East Germany and the Soviet Union, so that as many pilots as possible may familiarize themselves with the terrain and weather conditions of Eastern and Central Europe...
...when back in Cambridge. An office library of Littlefield typed manuscripts includes Rollo Walter Brown's "Harvard Yard in the Golden Age," and a study of Milton's influence on English poetry which was 11 years on a Littlefield carriage. Littlefield's were never political partisans, they have maintained strict surface neutrality; they have maintained strict surface neutrality; they typed sons of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt through College...