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...Resistance who was spending her last night in four years away from Paris on the back seat of a small car. Then as darkness fell we spread our bedrolls beside the road to Paris and lay there under the starry sky and the low moon. From beneath the Big Dipper came occasional flashes of light. Artillery sounded in the distance...
...perpetual commodore of the International Star Yacht Racing Association; in Manhattan. When the Star class of sloops (overall length 22 ft. 8¾ in.; beam 5 ft. 8¼ in.; draft approximately 3 ft. 4 in.) was designed in 1911, high-collared, Long Island Sounder Corry registered his Little Dipper as No.1. He won some 500 trophies, taught hundreds of amateur sailors, in 1939 was chairman of the international Star races at Kiel...
Herbert disclaims any intention of being "narrowly and offensively British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...
...fact that the opposing team was in Blue uniforms made a difference, because this week's game is in many ways the reason for all the practice sessions at which they've been bored since September. All the hipper-dipper that they've marvelled at on Wednesdays without seeing on Saturdays may finally be unveiled...
...spite of stiff competition from 13 other colleges, a barber shop quartet of skiers from the Outing Club scored a stunning upset yesterday morning when it captured second place in the annual Intercollegiate Outing Club Association race down the Little Dipper Trail on Moosilauke Mt., trailing the Dartmouth Outing Club...