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...Helder and other centres were threatened likewise. . . . Our Air Force was too weak. . . . We were left to ourselves and so I had to make a grave decision which was a very difficult one for me to lay down our arms. ... All I can say is, trust in the future, behold your traditions. Long live Her Majesty the Queen! Long live the Fatherland...
Again the grumble of discontented stomachs causes some headache to trouble-ridden John Harvard. Again his unruly crowd of pupils clamors for richer foods terrestrial, as if the fare of Learning were not enough to still the scholar's appetite. The battle-cry of Harvard's venerable past--"behold, the butter stinketh!"--again resounds in academic ears, but in a modern version that may well produce streamlined results...
Wonderful to behold, tremendous to hear is a military band-as every schoolboy knows to his marrow. Oldest and most famed of all such U. S. bands is the U. S. Marine Band. Founded in 1798, the "Marines" have played at every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson's day. Glorious in scarlet uniforms, the band plays Hail to the Chief every time the President appears at a big state shindig...
...could be bolted together, with the end foundations resting directly on the sidewalks, some fine morning about 2A.M. Next day, behold, the nerve wracking delay of waiting to cross would have been solved and, by their example and public spirit, the gentleman of Harvard would have called attention to a great problem in our midst...
Thousands of Britons lined the shores of Plymouth Sound early one morning last week to behold the cruiser Exeter, leading lady of the Battle of Punta del Este, steaming home under her own power after being patched up in the Falkland Islands. Her funnels riddled, her sides repainted but still scarred by shells from the Admiral Graf Spee, she tied up at Devonport alongside her comrade in action, the Ajax (third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord...