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Suddenly a submachine gun chattered. Leslie Ernest Ludford, a crippled lawyer who had paused to buy an Armistice Day poppy, crumpled to the sidewalk moaning. A dark sedan roared away. Later the sedan halted outside the home of two elderly women, Mrs. Annie New and Mrs. Emily Crisp. The doorbell rang...
While the boys in light blue were making crisp blocks and hard tackles our ponderous players spent their time puffing along after such speedy Columbia performers as Goverhali, or at best making weighty lunges in the direction of the ball carriers. A good part of the time our linesmen didn't have the slightest idea who the ball-carrier was: rather demoralizing. Knowing Dick Harlow's propensity for hipper-dipper deception, I shudder to think of the perplexed expressions that will cross the Tiger's brow a week from Saturday...
...ground, reporting it back in terms of map coordinates for ground commanders. When his plane is jumped by enemy fighters, he must be handy with a machine gun if he and his pilot are to get back with their reports. And airsick or well, he must crook a crisp and unhurried finger on the key of his code radio...
Between leaving Harvard in 1890 with his crisp new diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...Middle. On the most important front, Marshal Timoshenko's center, a period of beautiful crisp days was about to begin. Like New England's summer, this is what the Russians call babie lieta, " the peasant woman's summer." Here September and the first woman's two or three weeks of October should be much better fighting time than July and August...