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...they are given eight to 16 weeks of instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic with the aid of films, picture books, simple readers - enough to provide them with what the Army calls "functional literacy," a standard equivalent to a 4th-Grade education. The average soldier takes eight weeks to absorb this training, and is then sent to a regular training center. Of the 10% that fail the course, a negligible few may have special capacities, such as ability to handle a bulldozer, and are allowed to remain in the Army...
Lady Astor: The Government should not grant dwindling paper stock to "art study" magazines. The men who scan nude prints are mostly "not art students." How much paper do such publications absorb...
...electrolytic fluid (sulfuric acid) and is recharged by passing a current through the fluid to build up the potential of the positive pole. But the new battery is made of new materials that cut weight 20% and improve efficiency. It is made non-spilling and hence portable by an absorbent filling which soaks up the electrolytic fluid. The absorbed fluid still conducts current. Thus the battery works just as well when its container is cracked or shot away. The battery's plastic case does not corrode or absorb acid; this prevents current leakage-an old storage-battery failing...
...first time. None of us knew what to expect from a depth charge. They were most frightening. I remember standing, holding onto the brass ladder as these things went off. With the first few bangs there was a shower of the white cork which lines the hull to absorb moisture. We called the downfall a "white Christmas...
...submit; many of them openly and disrespectfully opposed him. But Hitler, like Roehm, Hess and Göring, was a "betrayed" soldier (and a brave one, Heiden insists); like Rosenberg and Goebbels, he was a frustrated man of questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper of an audience, and then bend it to his will...