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WAAFs originally did all table-waiting, still do office-girl chores. Men and officers like the WAAFs, who, on the average, are small, rounded, unaffected and friendly and clump busily around in flat shoes, hideous grey cotton stockings and broad smiles. Personnel officers have noted that the morale is better on posts which have uniformed girls, but when the WAAFs were waiting on table the doughboys showed a tendency to call them Sugar, Honey, and wisecrack with them as with waitresses of the world, which is not considered proper treatment for lady troops. Middleaged, local domestics are now doing most...
...material of the universe was a single clump of tight-packed sub-atomic particles-so tightly packed, in fact, that material equivalent to the present mass of the earth would barely have filled one of the present earth's good-sized gravel pits...
Finds. Near Moneta, Wyo., a hunter found an unopened letter in a clump of sagebrush. It was addressed to his mother-in-law, postmarked May 12, 1939. In Hobart, Mich., Ray Loomis found a set of false teeth in his potato patch, returned them to a neighbor who had lost them...
...dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under a clump of bone-bare trees while lambs and pigs gam, bol in the distance...
...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...