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Explanations. Alarmed at the sudden outcry, Army & Navy officials hastened to explain that they were compelled to buy foreign food products for their outposts because U. S. law requires them to pur- chase from the lowest competitive bidders...
...fanfare, anti as the band crashed into "La Marseillaise" the French tricolor that had flown over German Mainz for nearly twelve years slipped slowly down the flagstaff. With as little commotion as possible the 8th Infantry scurried clanking through the streets, quickly entrained for Cherbourg. At the station a sudden irrepressible storm of boos and catcalls from the German populace sped them on their...
Before him, crowded cheek to jowl, sat whites and blacks, men and women, boys and girls, for the "Live-at-Home" movement included Negroes. Newsmen remarked with astonishment upon the sudden evaporation of race prejudice. Negroes spoke from the same rostrum as Governor Gardner about the "recovery of their race's self-respect." Declared Governor Gardner...
...Through Harvard's sudden growth in size it has scarcely been possible to reorganize fast enough to keep its educational system up with the needs of the undergraduates. For example, in its attempt to keep up its prestige as far as other colleges and the outside world are concerned, Harvard finds itself lamentably lacking in teachers and rather overloaded with authorities...
...House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened once by a sudden clap of thunder, roused occasionally by party whips to speak a needed word. The whips at last became so frantic as to stir up members slumbering in the lobbies by piping on police whistles...