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...former residence of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward over the table, her veil slightly askew, while with her cue tucked under her arm she aimed swift and true for the corner pocket...
Busiest Physicists. "The need for physicists in all war work is growing at a rate of between 1,500 and 2,000 a year, yet the schools are not turning out more than 500," says Director Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics. "The last war put chemistry on the map. This is a war of physics...
...Japanese staff officers' work has been of a high order." Outside. In battle dress a Japanese soldier looks like a badly wrapped brown paper package. His legs are too short, his pants are baggy, his leggings droop, his tunic is loose, his kit askew. He wears muddy leather shoes. He may have on a sweater or messy fatigue clothes...
...came as a great relief, like a reverse earthquake, that in one terrible jerk shook everything disjointed, distorted, askew back into place. Japanese bombs had finally brought national unity...
Retribution. In Yonkers, N.Y., when a parked truck rolled down a grade, knocked a house askew, jarred its foundation, jarred three people out of bed, the driver got a parking ticket...