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...something the wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than one, but plenty of women felt...
...loaded plastic tube and tripod, weighing 35 Ibs. in all. A one-shot piece designed for close-range use, it is fired by dry-cell batteries, is replaced forthwith by a new barrel; the empty goes to the rear for a new loading. By a wire hookup, several M-12s can be fired at once by the same gunner...
Matter and Mind. Throughout the U.S. last week, college coaches sweated and swore at squads averaging 85% 18-year-old freshmen. The best they could achieve would be something less expert even than last season's football (with its smattering of veteran V-12s), but the public was not of a mood to mind: the Notre Dame-Army game was sold out nine weeks ahead of time; advance ticket sales at Minnesota were running 40% ahead of last year...
...Navy V-12s including seamen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen...
RAYMOND MAZALEWSKI got quite a thrill out of his Hampton Beach sunburn when the corpsman told the new V-12s coming into sick bay that he had been out on a raft in the Atlantic for 10 days. . . the will have to dim those neon lights in the Oxford or more of us will get burnt...