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...would probably be a mistake to dive into German as a concentrator without some acquaintance with the writers likely to be encountered. Germany has produced a few literary giants which are a delight but, especially during the last hundred years, it has nourished writers less interesting and satisfactory to some students than their counterparts in France, America, Russia, and England...
Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
Pete Dillingham placed fifth in the three meter dive in the national A.A.U. championship swimming meet at Ohio State Saturday night. The Crimson finished 11th in the meet with a total of two points. Skippy Browning of Texas won both the one and three meter dives...
...torpedoes issued to them. The men of the Silent Service hung up their impressive record with erratic "fish" that were seldom as good as those used by the enemy. Unpredictable U.S. torpedoes sometimes went off prematurely or never exploded at all. They were known to porpoise or to dive under targets, and at least two circled about with diabolical accuracy to sink the subs that had launched them. Last week the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance announced that, as part of a $500 million research and development program, it had developed a new homing torpedo that was the answer...
This went on, Merk explains, until the otter was so tired, he could barely dive, when all the Indians shot arrows at him. The fur pelt went to the man whose arrow lodged closest to the otter...