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Flying Tactics. In Nanking with grandiose Oriental flourishes arrived Comrade Chin Pang-hsien, former Communist Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government whose forces are now merged with those of the Chinese Government. "Our valiant Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops...
...8th. Spent all morning trying to see my adviser. Not finding him in his office, scurried down to his room. A note was tacked on the door addressed to the instructor living with him: "If you can pay me the bet on the Yankees, send it airmail to the Roosevelt Hotel, New York. Thanks, Pericles...
...Viking art. How capable Swedish craftsmen had become, thousands of years before the first Viking art keel to cold water, was demonstrated by several shapely, streamlined, finely ornamented axheads of the early Bronze Age. The spiral designs chased on them appeared also on brooches, bracelets, rings, spearheads of the 8th to 11th Centuries A.D. In a glass case all by itself was a Viking drinking horn of heroic capacity, as long as a man's arm, carved from a single piece of wood in the time of Leif Ericsson...
...8th. Early awake and lay long atop my blankets feeling the steamy heat of a day that forms a most proper setting for the oppressive tasks of the examination period. From outside the noise of trucks and busses passing along toward the Square giving the effect of a symphony played with sledge-hammers upon an old-fashioned stove. The small chatter of the waitresses on their way to the House dining-rooms sounds like the uproar of an army. The neighbor's morning shower through the firedoor a veritable Niagara. Lord, how wise was the philosopher who said...
Whitney Museum. U. S. painting and sculpture only, with particular accent on contemporary work, is collected in Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's salmon stucco repository at No. 10 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Best known pieces: Bellows' Dempsey-Tunney Fight and The Blue Clown by Walt Kuhn...