Word: comb
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ideal craft with which to comb submarines is now being constructed. Henry Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...
...compilation of the list of alumni and students of the University who are now engaged in the service of the Government, the War Records' Office has relied solely on voluntary statements from the men now in the army or navy. It would be impossible for the office to comb the records of the million or more men now in the military and naval forces in order to obtain the necessary information concerning those who have been connected with the University. Through every possible means, however, the War Record Office is requesting men in service to send to Cambridge reports...
...blankets, or 2 blankets and 1 comforter; 1 undershirt; 2 prs. socks; 1 shaving outfit; 1 face towel; 1 bath towel; 1 Small Arms Firing Manual; 1 Manual of Interior Guard Duty; 1 tooth brush; 1 cake soap; 1 comb; 1 pr. shoe laces (extra) 1 pr. shoes; 1 rain coat (optional). No other articles will be taken. These articles will be securery tied by each man in as compact a bundle as possible, and each man will attach to his-bundle a linen tag giving name and company. The bundles will be placed on the ground under the supervision...
...rich and unique possibilities? Not badly, at any rate. Dr. Davison's discussion of the methods of music teaching in the Boston public schools is timely in view of the avowed purpose of the board of education to go over this department of its work with a fine toothed comb. It reveals convincingly what most of us, in our grade school days, have suffered in the name of art. A constructive article on the same subject, written by some one who was both a psychologist and a musician, might have considerable, influence at this time. Mr. Hall describes Karg-Elert...